61.1. The notice provided for in section 196 of the Act must contain:(1) the name of the absorbed plan and the number assigned to it by Retraite Québec;
(2) the name of the absorbing plan and the number assigned to it by Retraite Québec;
(3) the number of members and beneficiaries of the absorbed plan at the effective date of the amendment intended to merge the assets and liabilities of the affected plans;
(4) where a merger does not include the total assets of the absorbed plan, a description of the group constituted by the members and beneficiaries whose benefits would be transferred to the absorbing plan and their number;
(5) the provisions of the affected plans relative to the allocation of the surplus assets determined upon termination and, where one of the plans has no provisions of that nature, a mention of that fact and of the rule set out in the second paragraph of section 288.1 of the Act;
(6) in the case provided for in the fourth paragraph of section 196 of the Act, a mention of the rule therein set out, the identity of those whose consent is required under section 146.5 of the Act for an amendment to the absorbed plan and a mention that the consents have or have not already been obtained;
(7) where Retraite Québec authorizes a merger, a mention that only the provisions of the absorbing plan will apply, with respect to the employer’s entitlement to appropriate the surplus assets of the plan to the payment of his contributions as well as the allocation of surplus assets upon termination in respect of the members and beneficiaries of the absorbed plan who are affected by the merger;
(8) a mention that the members and beneficiaries whose benefits may be transferred from the absorbed plan to the absorbing plan may, within 60 days following receipt of the notice or of the publication, if any, of the notice provided for in the second paragraph of section 230.4 of the Act, according the latest of them, to make known in writing to the pension committee their opposition to the merger of the plans;
(9) the address of the pension committee;
(10) the name of the signatory, the attestation that he is duly authorized by the pension committee to give the notice and the date of signing.