46. For the purposes of the plan, the spouse is the person who is married to the teacher or pensioner, as the case may be, or, in the case of an unmarried teacher or pensioner, the person of the opposite or the same sex who was unmarried at the time of the death of the teacher or pensioner and who had been living in a conjugal relationship with the teacher or pensioner for a period of not less than three years immediately prior to the teacher’s or pensioner’s death, and had been publicly represented as the teacher’s or pensioner’s spouse by the teacher or pensioner.
1974, c. 63, s. 14; 1983, c. 24, s. 2; 1988, c. 82, s. 79; 1999, c. 14, s. 24.