28. A flexible pension plan that meets the conditions of this section is, with respect to optional ancillary contributions, exempted from the application of the following provisions of the Act:(1) section 47, so that, where a member or beneficiary has become entitled to a benefit under the pension plan, the optional ancillary contributions continue, subject to the provisions of section 45.1 of the Act, to bear interest at the rate referred to in section 44 of the Act until the said contributions are converted into optional ancillary benefits;
(2) section 83, provided that the member is entitled, from the date on which a pension begins to be paid to him under the plan, to the formation of optional ancillary benefits, whose value shall be determined in accordance with section 33 of the Regulation, that arise from the said contributions credited to his account;
(3) subparagraph 1 of the second paragraph of section 86 and subparagraph 1 of section 98 so that for the application of the other provisions of the said sections, the optional ancillary contributions are deemed to have been converted, to the highest value of the options available under the plan, into optional ancillary benefits on the day preceding, as the case may be, the death of the member, the date on which he ceased to be an active member or the date of the transfer application;
(4) section 264, so that the said contributions are non-transferable and non-seizable to the same extent as member contributions.