99. Any officer who, after at least eight years’ service, accepts an office under the Government to which this Act does not apply, shall continue to be deemed an officer for the purposes of this Division provided that he pays the contribution contemplated in section 69.
The same shall apply, with the approval of the Government, to any officer who accepts or has accepted a position with a school board, a general and vocational college or a corporation constituted under the Act respecting the Université du Québec, otherwise than as a teacher within the meaning of the Act respecting the Teachers Pension Plan (chapter R-11), even if he does not have eight years of service. This provision does not apply to officers having accepted a position with a school board or a general and vocational college after 30 June 1973.
The same applies, with the approval of the Government, to any officer who accepts or has accepted an employment with a body contemplated by the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-5) following the transfer of jurisdiction over his duties from the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux or of the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail to a body contemplated by the said Act, even if he does not have eight years of service.
The same rule applies, with the approval of the Government, to any officer who, on 14 February 1979, was in the employ of the Société d’exploitation des loteries et courses du Québec and who, under section 35 of the Act to incorporate the Société des loteries et courses du Québec (1978, chapter 38), became an employee of the Société des loteries et courses du Québec, even if he does not have eight years of service.
Any person to whom the third paragraph has applied may, with the approval of the Government, continue to contribute to this plan if he is thereafter transferred from a body contemplated in the Act respecting health services and social services to another body contemplated in the said Act.
The same rule applies, with the approval of the Government, to any officer who was in the employ of the École provinciale de médecine vétérinaire on 1 January 1969 and has accepted an employment with the Université de Montréal following integration into the latter of the said school, otherwise than as a teacher within the meaning of the Act respecting the Teachers Pension Plan, even if he did not have eight years of service and even if the Act respecting the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan (chapter R-10) applies to that officer. An officer who was reimbursed his contributions may return them to the Commission, with interest at the rate determined by the Government. However, no interest is computed for the period during which the redemption proposal made by the Commission is valid.
In addition, the same applies to every officer who becomes or has become a member of a Board, Commission, Court, Council, Bureau or Government body even if the Act respecting the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan applies to that Board, Commission, Court, Bureau, Council or body, and even if that officer has not eight years of service.
For the application of the preceding paragraph, Government body means any body the officers of which are by law appointed or paid under the Public Service Act (chapter F-3.1.1).
Nevertheless, if the law governing the office accepted by such officer makes provision for a pension for the holder thereof, such officer must make option between the provisions of the said law and those of this Act. Such option shall be exercised by written notice given within 2 months after the appointment or at any time before the repayment of the deductions.
Any civil servant who, before 30 June 1973, accepted a position with a general and vocational college, and to whom the second paragraph applied, may, with the approval of the Government, continue to participate in this plan if he subsequently accepts a position with a corporation established pursuant to section 30.1 of the General and Vocational Colleges Act (chapter C-29).
R. S. 1964, c. 14, s. 75; 1969, c. 15, s. 40; 1973, c. 12, s. 182; 1974, c. 10, s. 25; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1977, c. 22, s. 51; 1978, c. 57, s. 92; 1978, c. 38, s. 29; 1978, c. 15, s. 140; 1979, c. 24, s. 21; 1979, c. 63, s. 329; 1983, c. 24, s. 55, s. 63; 1983, c. 55, s. 161; 1985, c. 23, s. 24; 1990, c. 87, s. 98.