112.2. Notwithstanding section 99.5, every officer who was granted a maternity leave may be credited, without contributions, with the days of a maternity leave in progress on 1 July 1973 or having begun after that date but having ended before 1 July 1976, up to 90 contributory days.
A female officer may be credited, without contributions, with the days and parts of a day of a maternity leave in progress on 1 July 1983 or beginning not later than 31 December 1988, up to 130 contributory days.
To be credited with the days of the maternity leave, the officer referred to in the first paragraph is required to have contributed to the Teachers Pension Plan or the plan provided for in Division II, as the case may be, in the 12 months preceding the beginning of the maternity leave, and to have again contributed to the Teachers Pension Plan or the plan provided for in Division II within two years following the year in which the maternity leave ended even if, in the latter case, the officer referred to in the first paragraph was not a teacher within the meaning of the Teachers Pension Plan at the time she again contributed.
The contributions paid by the officer referred to in the first paragraph to redeem the maternity leave pursuant to the provisions relating to the redemption of a period of absence without pay are reimbursed without interest.
1988, c. 82, s. 152; 1997, c. 7, s. 34; 2002, c. 30, s. 107.