44. For the purposes of this Act, the spouse is the person who is married to or in a civil union with a participant or pensioner or, provided neither is married or in a civil union, at the time of the death of the participant or pensioner, the person of the opposite or the same sex who had been living in a conjugal relationship with the participant or pensioner and had been publicly represented as the participant’s or pensioner’s spouse for one year if a child is born or to be born of their union or, otherwise, for not less than three years.
1988, c. 85, s. 44; 1989, c. 75, s. 6; 1999, c. 14, s. 22; 2002, c. 6, s. 180.