143.20. For the purposes of this division, in respect of the employee or person who qualified for membership in this plan before 1 January 2005, the Commission may, on 31 December 2004, offset the amount of contributions paid in excess under this plan, the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan or the Pension Plan of Management Personnel against, in order, the amounts that may be paid under section 143.17 and which may be reduced under section 143.18, and the amounts that may be paid under the second paragraph of section 143.15. These amounts and contributions accrue with interest in accordance with the pension plan concerned until 31 December 2004. The Commission reimburses to the employee or person, in accordance with the pension plan concerned, any balance of contributions established on 31 December 2004, with interest at the rate determined in Schedule VI to the Act respecting the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan (chapter R-10) or Schedule VII to the Act respecting the Pension Plan of Management Personnel (chapter R-12.1), depending on whether the balance of contributions is paid under this plan, the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan or the Pension Plan of Management Personnel. Sections 151, 218 and 219 of the Act respecting the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan and sections 204, 205 and 406 of the Act respecting the Pension Plan of Management Personnel apply.
Sections 191 to 191.2 of the Act respecting the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan apply, without an application being required, only to an employee who did not qualify for membership in this plan before 1 January 2005.
However, for the purposes of section 151 of the Act respecting the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan, the application is deemed to have been received at the Commission on 1 July 2006.