21.1. The chairman of the executive committee may continue to participate in the general retirement plan under the Act respecting retirement plans for the mayors and councillors of municipalities (chapter R-16).
To continue to participate in the general retirement plan, the chairman shall, within thirty days of his resignation as a member of the council of a municipality, give notice in writing to the Community and the Commission administrative des régimes de retraite et d’assurances, in the manner prescribed in section 7 of the Act respecting retirement plans for the mayors and councillors of municipalities; the said Act then applies, mutatis mutandis, as if the Community were a municipality having joined the general plan.
The notice provided for in the second paragraph maintains the participation of the chairman in the general retirement plan from his resignation as a member of the council of a municipality.