61.0.7. The annuity purchased from an insurer must have the same characteristics as the pension payable under the pension plan.
However, if no annuity of the type to which the member or beneficiary is entitled is available on the market due to its nature, in order to have an insurer guarantee the pension, the characteristics of the annuity that make it unavailable on the market may be replaced by similar characteristics that do not entail such a result.
The annuity thus modified must, on the date of the agreement with the insurer, be of a value equal to that of the pension to which the member or beneficiary is entitled under the plan. These values must be established on the basis of the actuarial assumptions referred to in section 61 of the Act.
1183-2017O.C. 1183-2017, s. 411.