43. From the day the payment of the pension of a pensioner ceases by reason of death, or as the case may be, from the day of the death of an employee who is entitled to a pension, the spouse shall be entitled to receive as pension one-half of the pension the pensioner was receiving or, as the case may be, would otherwise have been entitled to receive, or which the employee would have been entitled to receive, with, in every case, the reduction provided for in section 39 from the month following the death, even where the pensioner or employee dies before attaining 65 years of age.
The first paragraph also applies to the spouse of the employee who ceased to participate in the plan and was eligible for a pension.
1973, c. 12, s. 36; 1977, c. 21, s. 10; 1982, c. 51, s. 9; 1983, c. 24, s. 1; 1988, c. 82, s. 18; 1997, c. 50, s. 25.