59. Each child of a pensioner or employee referred to in section 56 or, as the case may be, of a person referred to in section 57, who is unmarried and under 18 years of age or under 21 years of age if he is a full-time student in an educational institution designated in Schedule I to the Act respecting the Teachers Pension Plan (chapter R-11) or in any other institution designated by regulation, is entitled to receive, as pension,(1) if a pension is paid to the spouse, 10 % of the pension used as the basis for computing the spouse’s pension, reduced as in section 51;
(2) if there is no spouse entitled to a pension, 20 % of the pension that would have been used as the basis for computing the spouse’s pension, reduced as in section 51;
(3) if the spouse dies while receiving a pension, 20 % of the pension used as the basis for computing the spouse’s pension and adjusted from the death of the pensioner or employee referred to in section 56 or, as the case may be, of the person referred to in section 57, reduced as in section 51.
However, where there are more than four children, an amount representing 10 % or 20 % of the pension, as the case may be, multiplied by 4, is divided equally among the children.
1987, c. 107, s. 59; 1990, c. 5, s. 10.