22.1. The plan applies to employees, other than the employees referred to in the second paragraph, who hold employment in a research centre within the meaning of section 22.2 and whose remuneration is paid out of the centre’s budget, if both the employer and the employees so elect by means of polls held in accordance with sections 6.1 and 7 of the Act respecting the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan (chapter R-10). Employees who, on 31 December 2009, contribute to the plan for employment held in the research centre or who, on that date, would have contributed to the plan for such employment had they not been absent without pay, receiving salary insurance benefits or on maternity leave or personal leave in connection with pregnancy or delivery and those to whom the plan, if it became applicable, would not apply by reason of the regulation made under subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph of section 3 may not make an election for the purposes of the first paragraph.
The plan applies to the extent provided for in this chapter from the date determined in section 8 of the Act respecting the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan.
2010, c. 11, s. 5; 2022, c. 222022, c. 22, s. 28713.