107.0.1. Where a contributor who dies after 31 December 2012 has not paid base contributions for the number of years required to qualify for survivors’ benefits under the first and second paragraphs of section 107, the base contributions paid for a year subsequent to 1997 and to the end of the base contributory period, within the meaning of subparagraph a or b of the second paragraph of section 101, may, for qualification purposes, be substituted, after the third paragraph of section 101 is applied, for the years included in the base contributory period for which no base contributions were paid. In such a case, the contributor may be considered to have paid base contributions for the number of years required if he meets the conditions set out in the first and second paragraphs of section 107.
2011, c. 36, s. 10; 2018, c. 22018, c. 2, s. 5511.