Public Service Superannuation Regulations

57 (1) In this section and in section 58, actual operational service means the service and the periods of absence designated as operational service under section 53 and deemed operational service means any period during which a person is deemed to be employed in operational service under section 54.

(2) Actual and deemed operational service that occurred on or after March 18, 1994 and in respect of which a person has made an election under subparagraph 6(1)(b)(iii) of the Act is pensionable service to the credit of the person, for the purposes of sections 24.2 and 24.3 of the Act, only if the person further elects, while employed in operational service, to contribute an additional amount determined in accordance with subsection (3), together with interest within the meaning of subsection 7(2) of the Act.

(3) The additional amount shall be equal to the amount that the person would have been required to contribute in respect of that service under section 55 as it read at the time the service occurred, based on the salary authorized to be paid to the person

• (a) on the day on which the person most recently became employed in actual operational service, if the person makes the election within one year after that day; or

• (b) in any other case, on the day on which the person makes the election.

(4) The additional amount and the interest shall be paid, at the person’s option,

• (a) in a lump sum, at the time the election is made; or

• (b) by deduction from the person’s salary or from any benefits payable to the person under the Act, in approximately equal instalments.