237. For the purpose of computing the spouse’s pension, the pension that would have been received by a judge having opted for the plan provided for in this Part or, as the case may be, for an equivalent plan in effect in the municipality pursuant to the legislative provisions granting such option, who was in office on 30 May 1978 and died while in office before having at least 20 years of service to his credit or reaching 70 years of age, shall in no case be less than 56 % of the average salary of his five best remunerated years of service. However, if, at the time referred to in the first paragraph of section 232, the judge held office as chief judge or associate chief judge or had the status thereof for 10 years or more, the pension that he would have received, for the purpose of computing his spouse’s pension, shall in no case be less than 63 % of that average salary.
In addition, when the age and years of service of the judge do not total 80, the pension he would have received is, for the purpose of calculating his spouse’s pension, reduced in accordance with section 232.1.
1978, c. 19, s. 33; 1987, c. 50, s. 6; 1990, c. 44, s. 11; 1991, c. 79, s. 17.