Public Service Superannuation Act — P-36 3
Definitions 3 (1) In this Part, active service in the forces means any service in the forces of a kind designated in the regulations to be active service, which service is deemed for the purposes of this Part 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 his discharge, on that person’s release from hospital; ( activité de service dans les forces ) 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 required by section 5 to contribute to the Public Service Pension Fund, and, 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 Public Service Pension Fund, and (b) for the purposes of sections 25, 27 and 28, a contributor under Part I of the Superannuation Act who has been granted an annual allowance under that Act or has died; ( contributeur ) disabled means incapable of pursuing regularly any substantially gainful occupation; ( invalide ) Force means the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; ( Gendarmerie ) forces , except in the definition “regular force”, means the naval, army or air forces of His Majesty or of any of the Allies of His Majesty during World War I or World War II; ( forces ) Minister means the President of the Treasury Board; ( ministre ) misconduct [Repealed, 1999, c. 34, s. 53] pensionable employment means any employment in respect of which there was an established superannuation or pension fund or plan, approved by the Minister for the purposes of this Part, for the benefit of persons engaged in that employment; ( emploi ouvrant droit à pension ) period in pensionable employment means any period of service to the credit of the employee in the fund or plan referred to in the definition “pensionable employment” at the time he left the employment therein referred to; ( période d’emploi ouvrant droit à pension ) provincial pension plan has the same meaning as in the Canada Pension Plan ; ( régime provincial de pensions ) public service means the several positions in or under any department or portion of the executive government of Canada, except those portions of departments or portions of the executive government of Canada prescribed by the regulations and, for the purposes of this Part, of the Senate, House of Commons, Library of Parliament, office of the Senate Ethics Officer, office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, Parliamentary Protective Service and office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer and any board, commission, corporation or portion of the federal public administration specified in Schedule I; ( fonction publique ) Public Service Pension Fund means the fund established under section 44.2; ( Caisse de retraite de la fonction publique ) Public Service Superannuation Investment Fund means the fund established under section 44.1; ( Fonds de placement du compte de pension de retraite de la 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 Fund means the Retirement Fund established under Part II of the Civil Service Superannuation and Retirement Act ; ( Fonds de retraite ) salary means (a) as applied to the public service, the basic pay received by the person in respect of whom the expression is being applied for the performance of the regular duties of a position or offi