Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act — M-5 2
991. ( version antérieure ) joint and survivor benefit [Repealed, 2000, c. 12, s. 176] member means a member of the Senate or House of Commons. ( parlementaire ) Minister means the President of the Treasury Board. ( ministre ) pensionable earnings , with respect to any member in respect of any calendar year, means the aggregate of (a) his or her sessional indemnity for the year, (b) any annual allowance payable to him or her in respect of the year, and (c) any salary payable to the member in respect of the year. ( gains ouvrant droit à pension ) prescribed means prescribed by regulation. ( Version anglaise seulement ) reduction factor , with respect to any former member, means the number determined by the calculation referred to in the description of D in subsection 37.3(2). ( facteur de réduction ) Retiring Allowances Account means the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Account continued by section 3. ( compte d’allocations ) salary means a salary payable to a member pursuant to section 4 or 4.1 of the Salaries Act or section 60, 61, 62.1 or 62.2 of the Parliament of Canada Act , or payable to a member pursuant to an appropriation Act as a minister of state or a minister without portfolio. ( traitement ) session means a session of Parliament. ( session ) sessional indemnity means (a) in relation to a period before October 8, 1970, the allowances payable to a member under section 55 and subsection 63(3) of the Parliament of Canada Act , as that subsection read immediately before the coming into force of this paragraph, (b) in relation to a period after October 7, 1970 and before July 8, 1974, (i) in the case of a member of the Senate, five sixths of the allowance payable to the member under section 55 of the Parliament of Canada Act , and (ii) in the case of a member of the House of Commons, the allowance payable to the member under section 55 of the Parliament of Canada Act , and (c) in relation to a period after July 7, 1974, the allowance payable to a member under section 55 or 55.1 of the Parliament of Canada Act . ( indemnité de session ) survivor , in relation to a member or former member, means (a) a person who was married (i) in the case of a member or former member, to the member or former member immediately before his or her death, and (ii) in the case of a former member, to the former member immediately before the time when he or she ceased to be a member, or (b) a person who establishes that the person was cohabiting in a relationship of a conjugal nature (i) in the case of a member or former member, with the member or former member for at least one year immediately before his or her death, and (ii) in the case of a former member, with the former member before he or she ceased to be a member. ( survivant ) Calculation of average annual sessional indemnity (2) For the purposes of calculating a member’s average annual sessional indemnity, any period during which he or she is, by virtue of paragraph 12(1)(b) or (c) or 34(1)(b), as it read immediately before January 1, 2013, prohibited from contributing in respect of the sessional indemnity payable to him or her is deemed to be a period of pensionable service to the member’s credit. Calculation of average annual sessional indemnity (2.1) For the purposes of calculating a member’s average annual sessional indemnity, any period during which he or she is required to make contributions under subsection 12(2) or would be required to contribute under that subsection if he or she were under 71 years of age is deemed to be a period of pensionable service to the member’s credit. Calculation of average annual pensionable earnings (2.2) For the purposes of calculating a member’s average annual pensionable earnings, any period during which he or she is required to make contributions under subsection 12(2.1) or would be required to contribute under that subsection if he or she were under 71 years of age is deemed to be a period of pensionable service to the member’s credit.