Section 73 — Canada Pension Plan: Duration of payment

Subject to this Act, a survivor’s pension shall continue to be paid during the lifetime of the beneficiary, and shall cease with the payment for the month in which the beneficiary dies. If a contributor died on or after January 1, 1998 but before the coming into force of this subsection, and a survivor’s pension was, immediately before that coming into force, payable to a survivor who had been married to the contributor at the time of the contributor’s death, the approval of payment of a survivor’s pension, in respect of that contributor’s death, to a survivor who was the contributor’s common-law partner at the time of the contributor’s death and was not a person described in subparagraph (a)(ii) of the definition spouse in subsection 2(1) as that definition read at that time, does not affect the right of the survivor referred to in paragraph (b) to continue to receive the survivor’s pension in accordance with subsection (1). Despite subsection (1), a survivor’s pension shall cease with the payment for the month of the effective date of the approval of a division of unadjusted pensionable earnings between the survivor and the contributor under paragraph 55.1(1)(b) unless, at the time of the contributor’s death, the survivor had been cohabiting with the contributor in a new conjugal relationship for a continuous period of at least one year.