1. In this act, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following expressions have the meanings given here:(a) “retirement plan” : the Civil Service Superannuation Plan, the Teachers Pension Plan, or a supplemental plan to which the Act respecting supplemental pension plans (chapter R-17) applies and to which the employees of a body contemplated in section 2 contribute;
(b) “employee” : a person contemplated in section 2, in the first paragraph of section 2.1 or in section 105.1;
(c) “employer” : the Government or, as the case may be, a university establishment, a body or an institution contemplated in section 2, in the first paragraph of section 2.1 or in section 105.1;
(d) “contribution” : the contribution of an employee by virtue of this act;
(e) “contributory amount” : the contribution of an employer by virtue of this act;
(f) “deferred annuity” : a life annuity payable to an employee on his attaining 65 years of age, continued or not after his death in favour of another person;
(g) “pension credit” : the annual value of benefits to which an employee has become entitled by virtue of this plan and which are derived from a supplemental plan or have accrued from past service;
(h) “paid-up annuity” : an annuity derived from a supplemental plan, the payment of which is fully insured or guaranteed by the government of Canada or of a province, or by an insurance company or association registered in Québec;
(i) “salary insurance” : the salary insurance established in accordance with the collective agreements, except elective complementary salary-insurance plans;
(j) “collective agreement” : a collective agreement within the meaning of the Labour Code, an arbitration award in lieu of a collective agreement, a decree within the meaning of the Act respecting collective agreement decrees (chapter D-2), a regulation of the Government or of the Conseil du trésor determining the conditions of employment, and the standards applicable in respect of personnel established by the Minister of Social Affairs by virtue of paragraph i of section 3 of the Act respecting the Ministère des Affaires sociales (chapter M-23);
(k) “year” : a calendar year;
(l) “year of service” : a year of service contemplated by section 42 for which no pension credit nor any paid-up annuity is payable;
(m) “prescribed” : prescribed by regulation;
(n) “regulation” : a regulation made by the Government by virtue of this act;
(o) “pension” or “annual pension” : the pension contemplated by sections 52 and 68;
(p) “Commission” : the Commission administrative du régime de retraite established by this act;
(q) “Minister” : the Minister of the Civil Service.