44.1. In respect of an employee who ceases to participate in the plan before 1 January 2010, subdivisions 2 and 2.1 of Division I of Chapter IV and sections 56.1, 125.5 and, if the employee dies before 1 January 2010, sections 56, 57, 59 and 102 apply as they read on the date on which the employee ceases to participate in the plan.