Definitions
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(1) In this Act, “approved pension plan” means a pension plan that has been established by a municipality or local board under any general or special Act; (“régime de retraite agréé”) “associated employer” means, (a) a person who, under an agreement with a municipality or local board or under an Act, provides a service, program or thing to a person that the municipality or local board is authorized to provide to the person, (b) a corporation incorporated in accordance with section 142 of the Electricity Act, 1998 for the purpose of generating, transmitting, distributing or retailing electricity, or (c) a person or association of persons that is designated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council as an associated employer under this Act; (“employeur associé”) “benefit” means a pension, refund or other payment that may be payable in accordance with the regulations to or with respect to a member; (“prestation”) “Board” means the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement Board; (“Commission”) “councillor” means a person who is a member of a council of a municipality; (“conseiller”) “earnings”, in the case of an employee who is a member, means the salary or wages paid to the employee by an employer including the value of any perquisites received from an employer and, in the case of a councillor who is a member, means any money paid to the councillor for his or her services as a councillor; (“gains”) “employee” means a person who is employed by an employer but does not include, (a) a person who contributes to a pension plan under the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union Pension Act, 1994, the Public Service Pension Act or the Teachers’ Pension Act, or (b) an employee of an associated employer who is not eligible under this Act to be a member of the System; (“employé”) “employer” means, (a) a municipality or local board, (b) an associated employer, (c) an association of municipalities or local boards or of their officials or employees that is designated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council as an employer, (d) the Province of Ontario in respect of a member who is not eligible to contribute to a pension plan under the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union Pension Act, 1994, the Public Service Pension Act or the Teachers’ Pension Act; (“employeur”) “Fund” means the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement Fund; (“Caisse”) “local board” means, (a) a local board as defined in the Municipal Affairs Act but not, (i) an associated employer, or (ii) a hospital board that operates a public hospital (within the meaning of the Public Hospitals Act) on behalf of a municipality, (b) an agency of the Crown designated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council as a local board under this Act, and (c) the Board; (“conseil local”) “member” means a person who has become a member of the System; (“participant”) “Minister” means the Minister of Municipal Affairs; (“ministre”) “optional service” means, (a) service with any municipality or local board in Canada, (b) service with the civil service of Canada or of any province of Canada, (c) service with the staff of any board, commission or public institution established under any Act of Canada or any province of Canada, (d) service with any other organization which was not an employer under this Act and which has been merged or amalgamated with or otherwise taken over by an organization named in clause (a), (b) or (c), (d.1) service with an associated employer, or (e) war service; (“service facultatif”) “pension” means an amount that is payable at periodic intervals in accordance with the regulations; (“pension”) “prior service” means the service of an employee or councillor before the date upon which this Act and the regulations become applicable to the employer; (“service passé”) “regulations” means the regulations made under this Act; (“règlements”) “service” means service rendered to an employer or to a predecessor thereof by an employee or councillor, as the case may be, for which earnings are received and, for purposes of supplementary benefits, may include optional service; (“service”) “spouse” has the same meaning as in the Pension Benefits Act; (“conjoint”) “supplementary benefit” means a benefit in addition to the benefit to which a member or the surviving spouse, child, beneficiary or estate of the member is entitled by reason of his or her membership in the System; (“prestation supplémentaire”) “surplus” has the same meaning as in the Pension Benefits Act; (“excédent”) “surviving spouse” means the person who was the spouse of a member immediately before the member’s death; (“conjoint survivant”) “System” means the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System; (“Régime”) “war service” means active service during World War II or the Korean War, (a) in His or Her Majesty’s naval, army or air forces or in the Canadian or British Merchant Marine, or (b) in any naval, army or air force that was allied with His or Her Majesty’s forces and that is designated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, providing satisfactory proof of such service is produced. (“service de guerre”) R.S.O. 1990, c. O.29, s. 1; 1991, c. 54, s. 1; 1997, c. 26, Sched.; 1998, c. 15, Sched. D, s. 1 (1-3); 1999, c. 6, s. 49 (1-3); 2002, c. 17, Sched. F, Table; 2005, c. 5, s. 53 (1-5). Deemed employer (2) Cornwall Street Railway Light and Power Company Limited shall be deemed to be an employer for the purposes of this Act, (a) beginning on the day on which the City of Cornwall sells its shares in the Company to Consumers Gas Energy Inc.; and (b) ending on the day on which subsection 1 (4) of Schedule D to the Energy Competition Act, 1998 comes into force. 1998, c. 15, Sched. D, s. 1 (4). Deemed designation (3) Cornwall Street Railway Light and Power Company Limited shall be deemed to have been designated as an associated employer on the day on which subsection 1 (4) of Schedule D to the Energy Competition Act, 1998 comes into force. 1998, c. 15, Sched. D, s. 1 (4). 2. Repealed: 1991, c. 54, s. 2.