Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act — R-11 3
Definitions 3 (1) In this Act, active service means any service that is specified in the regulations to be active service and is deemed for the purposes of this Act to have terminated on discharge or, in the case of a person who underwent treatment in a veterans’ hospital, as defined in the regulations, immediately following their discharge, on their release from that hospital; ( activité de service ) child means a child or stepchild of — or an individual adopted either legally or in fact by — a contributor, who at the time of the contributor’s death was dependent on the contributor for support; ( enfant ) contributor means a person who is required by section 5 to contribute to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Fund, and includes, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) a person who has ceased to be required by this Act to contribute to the Superannuation Account or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Fund, and (b) for the purposes of sections 15 to 19 and 22, a contributor under Part V of the former Act who has been granted a pension or annual allowance under that Act or has died; ( contributeur ) disabled , except in Part II, as applied to any member of the Force, means incapable, by reason of any condition, of performing their duties as a member of the Force, and, for the purposes of section 12 as applied to any person, means ordinarily incapable, by reason of any condition, of pursuing any substantially gainful occupation; ( invalide ) Force means the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; ( Gendarmerie ) former Act means the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act , chapter 241 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1952, as it read before April 1, 1960, and includes, unless the context otherwise requires, any other Act of Parliament providing for the payment of pensions to members of the Force based on length of service, other than this Act; ( ancienne loi ) member of the Force means a member of the Force, as those terms are defined in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act , holding a rank in the Force, and any other member of the Force, as those terms are defined in that Act, of a class designated in accordance with the regulations for the purposes of this Act; ( membre de la Gendarmerie ) Minister means the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness; ( ministre ) officer means a commissioned officer of the Force; ( officier ) pay means, (a) as applied to the Force, the pay of the substantive rank held by the person in respect of whom the expression is being applied, not including the pay of acting rank or extra pay for staff or similar temporary appointments, or, in the case of a person not holding a rank in the Force, the salary or other remuneration for the performance of the regular duties of that person as a member of the Force, together with such allowances by way of compensation or otherwise as are prescribed by the regulations, and (b) as applied to the public service or the Canadian Forces, the salary or pay and allowances, as the case may be, applicable in the case of that person, as determined under the Public Service Superannuation Act or the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act ; ( solde ) provincial pension plan has the same meaning as in the Canada Pension Plan ; ( régime provincial de pensions ) public service has the same meaning as in subsection 3(1) of the Public Service Superannuation Act ; ( fonction publique ) regular force means the regular force of the Canadian Forces and includes (a) the forces known before February 1, 1968 as the regular forces of the Canadian Forces, and (b) the forces known before February 1, 1968 as the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army Active Force, the Permanent Active Militia, the Permanent Militia Corps, the permanent staff of the Militia, the Royal Canadian Air Force (Regular) and the Permanent Active Air Force; ( force régulière ) retirement age , as applied to any rank or class of contributor, means such age as is fixed by the regulations as the retirement