34.1. In respect of an employee who ceases to participate in the plan before 1 January 2010, subdivisions 2 and 3 of Division I of Chapter IV of Title I, sections 54, 59.1, 73.3 and 109.2, and, if the employee dies before 1 January 2010, section 43 apply as they read on the date on which the employee ceases to participate in the plan.