47. Subject to section 52, if a person who qualifies for a pension dies before a pension has been granted to him for at least ten years after his last term as a Member, his spouse or, if he has no spouse, his assigns are entitled to receive the pension to which that person was entitled at the time of his death, until the expiration of that period, or to receive, on application, a lump sum equal to the commuted value of the pension.
The Office shall establish by regulation the terms and conditions of computation to be used to determine the commuted value of the pension.
1982, c. 66, s. 47; 1990, c. 5, s. 2.