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R-10 - Act respecting the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan
Section 44
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44. For the purposes of the plan, the spouse is the person who is married to or in a civil union with the employee or pensioner, as the case may be, or, provided neither is married or in a civil union at the time of the death of the employee or pensioner, the person of the opposite or the same sex who had been living in a conjugal relationship with the pensioner or employee for a period of not less than three years immediately prior to the employee’s or pensioner’s death, and had been publicly represented as the employee’s or pensioner’s spouse by the employee or pensioner or who, during the year preceding the employee’s or pensioner’s death, was living in a conjugal relationship with the employee or pensioner while one of the following situations occurred:
(1) a child was or is to be born of their union;
(2) they adopted a child together; or
(3) one of them adopted a child of the other.
44. For the purposes of the plan, the spouse is the person who is married to the employee or pensioner, as the case may be, or, in the case of an unmarried employee or pensioner, the person of the opposite or the same sex who was unmarried at the time of the death of the employee or pensioner and who had been living in a conjugal relationship with the pensioner or employee for a period of not less than three years immediately prior to the employee’s or pensioner’s death, and had been publicly represented as the employee’s or pensioner’s spouse by the employee or pensioner or who, during the year preceding the employee’s or pensioner’s death, was living in a conjugal relationship with the employee or pensioner while one of the following situations occurred :
(1) a child was or is to be born of their union ;
(2) they adopted a child together ; or
(3) one of them adopted a child of the other.
44. For the purposes of the plan, the spouse is the person who is married to the employee or pensioner, as the case may be, or, in the case of an unmarried employee or pensioner, the person of the opposite or the same sex who was unmarried at the time of the death of the employee or pensioner and who had been living in a conjugal relationship with the pensioner or employee for a period of not less than three years immediately prior to the employee’s or pensioner’s death, and had been publicly represented as the employee’s or pensioner’s spouse by the employee or pensioner.
44. For the purposes of the plan, the spouse is the person who is married to the employee or pensioner, as the case may be, or, in the case of an unmarried employee or pensioner, the person who was unmarried at the time of the death of the employee or pensioner and who had been living in a conjugal relationship with the pensioner or employee for a period of not less than three years immediately prior to his death and had been publicly represented as his or her spouse by the employee or pensioner.
44. For the purposes of the application of this plan, the spouse is the person who is married to an employee or, if the employee is not married, the person who is unmarried at the time of the death and who, for not less than three years before the employee’s death, cohabited with him and was publicly represented by the employee as his spouse.
44. The period for which an employee is absent because of disability and to which salary insurance applies shall be credited to him in respect of each year in which he is so absent.
