216. No person may claim to have a benefit, advantage or reimbursement under the retirement plan provided by this Act if he has not applied therefor to Retraite Québec.
Even in the absence of an application for payment, any benefit payable under this plan shall be paid on or before 31 December of the year in which the employee attains 69 years of age or, where the employee continues to hold pensionable employment under the plan on that date, from the date on which the employee retires.
1983, c. 24, s. 1; 1997, c. 50, s. 55; 2015, c. 20, s. 61; 2022, c. 222022, c. 22, s. 28822.