31. Every female employee may be credited, without contributions, with the days and parts of a day of a maternity leave in progress on 1 July 1983 or which began thereafter, up to 130 contributory days, if, at the time the leave began, she was holding pensionable employment under the Civil Service Superannuation Plan, even if, while holding such employment, she was a member of the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan, the Pension Plan of Management Personnel or the Pension Plan of Certain Teachers, provided the leave has not been otherwise credited under this plan.
The service relating to the days and parts of a day of a maternity leave redeemed under this section shall be credited under this plan to the extent determined under section 39.
1987, c. 107, s. 31; 2001, c. 31, s. 240.