34. If any officer or employee resign or be dismissed, or if his office be abolished or if he be compelled, through physical or mental infirmity, to leave the service before the time when a pension could be granted to him, the sums which have been deducted from his salary shall be returned to him, without interest.
If he dies before he is granted a pension, and a pension provided for in sections 28 and 29 is not payable, the sums deducted from his salary shall be returned to his legal representatives.
R. S. 1964, c. 14, s. 23; 1974, c. 10, s. 10.