3. For the purposes of this plan, an employee is deemed to hold pensionable employment when he holds full-time or part-time employment, which shall include, among other periods, any period during which he is on leave without pay, is eligible for salary insurance benefits and, in the case of a female employee, any period of maternity leave.
For the purposes of this plan, an employee is a member of a pension plan from the first day he holds pensionable employment, and such employee is deemed to remain a member of the plan as long as he remains an employee within the meaning of this plan. However, an employee who, before becoming a member of this plan, has obtained the transfer of past service to this plan is deemed to have become a member of the plan on the date on which the Commission administrative des régimes de retraite et d’assurances received the application for redemption of the past service.
For the purposes of this plan, “salary insurance” means the salary insurance that is mandatory for the employee but does not include the salary insurance referred to in section 42.1.
1987, c. 107, s. 3; 1995, c. 70, s. 5.