31.1. The benefits accrued in behalf of the purchaser in a life income fund or a locked-in retirement account or under an annuity contract referred to in section 30, which, following their partition or transfer in the cases and under the conditions referred to in sections 107 and 110 of the Act, are granted to the spouse of the purchaser, are paid by transferring their value to a plan governed by the Act or referred to in paragraph 1, 2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4 or 5 of section 28.
A sum granted to the spouse of the purchaser following a seizure for unpaid alimony effected on the benefits or sums accrued on behalf of the purchaser in a life income fund or a locked-in retirement account or under an annuity contract referred to in section 30 shall be paid in a lump sum. That sum may, moreover, be paid without taking into account any conditions or time periods related to the purchaser’s benefits.
O.C. 173-2002, s. 26; O.C. 500-2014, s. 16.