35. If, after ten years of service, an officer or employee resigns or is dismissed or if his office is abolished, he shall be granted a pension deferred until he reaches the age of sixty years, becomes disabled or begins to receive a pension under the Legislature Act (chapter L-1) or under the Act respecting the conditions of employment and the pension plan of the Members of the National Assembly (chapter C-52.1), provided in the case of those two Acts, that he returns his contributions if they have been reimbursed to him. If he dies in the meantime, the widow’s or widower’s pension and the other benefits contemplated in sections 28 and 29 shall become payable in the manner indicated therein; otherwise, the deductions shall then be returned without interest to his estate.
This section shall not apply to an officer who leaves the service of the Government and who, under the Act respecting the Teachers Pension Plan or in consequence of an agreement under section 92, is entitled for pension purposes to his years of service as a public officer.
R. S. 1964, c. 14, s. 24; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 15, s. 10; 1966, c. 6, s. 6; 1969, c. 15, s. 13; 1973, c. 12, s. 159; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1977, c. 22, s. 16; 1982, c. 66, s. 68.