10. To avail himself of section 9, a person shall apply therefor to Retraite Québec and shall retire from the date on which the application is received or, where applicable, from any later date chosen by the person but not later than the date of his sixty-fifth birthday or, in the case of a female teacher or a female officer, her sixtieth birthday.
Any person who makes an application for a pension may cancel it provided that the first payment of the pension whose amount was calculated from the amount of pension confirmed by Retraite Québec has not been cashed and provided that the amounts already paid, where applicable, are reimbursed.
O.C. 690-96, s. 10; T.B. 216004, s. 3.