7(1)An active judge shall make contributions in relation to the Plan in an amount established by the regulations, in accordance with and as required by the regulations, until the date on which the total amount of the annual pension that the judge would be entitled to be paid under Part 3 on retirement when combined with the total of the annual supplementary allowances and other annual supplementary payments that the judge would be entitled to be paid under Part 4 on that date equals 65% of his or her average salary.

7(2)Despite subsection (1), an active judge who is or becomes the age prescribed in subparagraph 8502(e)(i) of the Income Tax Regulations under the Income Tax Act (Canada) on or after February 18, 2000, shall cease to make contributions as required in subsection (1), and shall not accumulate pensionable service,

7(3)Subject to the Income Tax Regulations under the Income Tax Act (Canada) and subject to the regulations, for the purposes of calculating the amount of a judge’s contributions required to be made under subsection (1), a judge who receives only a portion of the judge’s salary in relation to any pay period shall be deemed to have received the full salary for that pay period.

7(4)The maximum period of pensionable service of a judge that may be used for the purposes of calculating a benefit under this Act or the regulations is the period that ends on the date on which the total amount of the annual pension that the judge would be entitled to be paid under Part 3 on retirement when combined with the total of the annual supplementary allowances and other annual supplementary payments that the judge would be entitled to be paid under Part 4 on that date equals 65% of his or her average salary, whether the recipient of the benefit is the judge, the spouse, common-law partner, child or estate of the judge or the legal representative of any of them.