85. For the purposes of subdivision 5, unless the context indicates a different meaning:(a) “member” means a person who was a member of the National Assembly on the 1st of January 1958 or who became a member thereof after that date or who having been a member of the Legislative Council after such date became a member;
(b) “indemnity” means the indemnity payable to members for sessions of Parliament, but does not include amounts granted as entertainment expenses.
In the case of the members of the Conseil exécutif, the President, the Vice-Presidents of the National Assembly, the Leader of the Opposition, each member to whom paragraph 6 of section 7 of the Act respecting the conditions of employment and the pension plan of the Members of the National Assembly (chapter C-52.1) applies, the parliamentary assistants, the House Leader of the Opposition or of a party contemplated in paragraph 6 of section 7 of the Act respecting the conditions of employment and the pension plan of the Members of the National Assembly, the Chief Government Whip and the Chief Opposition Whip of the National Assembly, the Whip of any party contemplated in paragraph 6 of section 7 of the Act respecting the conditions of employment and the pension plan of the Members of the National Assembly, a Deputy Government House Leader who is not a member of the Conseil exécutif, a Deputy House Leader of the Official Opposition Party, an assistant Whip or a member appointed to act as chairman of the select committees, the word “indemnity” also includes, if the holder of the office indicates that he so desires by notice to the Minister of Finance, the supplementary indemnity which he receives by virtue of such indemnity, or a part of such indemnity, for a specified or indeterminate period, from and after the session mentioned in the said notice. He may at any subsequent time, by a similar notice, renounce for the future the addition of such supplementary indemnity to that which he receives as a member, for the purpose of computing his contributions.
R. S. 1964, c. 6, s. 102; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 11, s. 10; 1966-67, c. 15, s. 7; 1968, c. 9, s. 39, s. 90; 1970, c. 5, s. 3; 1971, c. 9, s. 20; 1973, c. 10, s. 15; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1982, c. 58, s. 44; 1982, c. 62, s. 160.