85.22. This chapter applies to every employee who may be unionized whose application to that effect is received by the Commission on or before 11 July 1997 and who(1) on 31 December 1996 was a member of this plan as an employee who may be unionized;
(2) has never availed or is not availing himself of the temporary criterion of eligibility for a pension of 35 years of service provided for in Division IV of Chapter V.1 of Title I, of the measures respecting early retirement provided for in Division III of Chapter V.1 of Title I, in Chapter III of Title IV including the special application provisions which are or were applicable under Title IV.1, or in subdivision 3 of Division II.1 of the Act respecting the Civil Service Superannuation Plan (chapter R-12), of the measures provided for in the Act respecting the payment of a retirement allowance and other benefits and amending the Act respecting the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan (1992, chapter 62) or of special measures enacted pursuant to Title IV.2 and designed to compensate, in whole or in part, the actuarial reduction of pension benefits;
(3) has not, before 19 December 1996, entered into an agreement with his employer within the scope of measures designed to reduce personnel or of any other measure designed to promote retirement or, where applicable, waives such an agreement entered into after 18 December 1996 within the scope of measures in force before that date;
(4) retires and ceases to be covered by this plan before 3 July 1997.
This chapter applies to an employee referred to in the second paragraph of section 215.0.1 only if the amount of benefits granted pursuant to this chapter is greater than the amount granted pursuant to Title IV.1. If this chapter applies to that employee, the employee may not avail himself of the special provisions contained in that title.