Canada Pension Plan Regulations

54.1 For the purposes of determining whether an application for an assignment of a portion of a retirement pension under section 65.1 of the Act may be approved, the applicant shall, in the application or thereafter in writing when requested to do so by the Minister, set out or furnish the Minister with the information required under section 52, subject to such modifications as the circumstances may require, and with such of the following additional information or evidence as is applicable:

• (a) the name at birth and present name, the sex, address and Social Insurance Number of the applicant’s spouse or common-law partner;

• (b) the date and place of birth of the applicant’s spouse or common-law partner;

• (c) whether the applicant’s spouse or common-law partner is or was in receipt of or has applied for a benefit under the Act or under a provincial pension plan;

• (d) the date and place of marriage of the spouses and their certificate of marriage;

• (e) the month in which the spouses or common-law partners commenced to live together in a conjugal relationship;

• (f) the dates of any periods when the spouses or common-law partners did not live together and whether the separations or any of them were for any reason set out in paragraph 78(2)(a) or subsection 78.1(3);

• (g) documentary evidence of the dissolution of any previous marriage of the applicant, including the decree absolute of divorce, the judgment granting a divorce under the Divorce Act or the judgment of nullity; and

• (h) such additional documents, statements or records that are in the possession of, or are obtainable by, the applicant as will assist the Minister in ascertaining the accuracy of the information and evidence referred to in paragraphs (a) to (g).