5. An employee who has been reimbursed his contributions to the plan prescribed by the Act respecting the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan (chapter R-10) or a pension plan, having had less than two assessed years of service, may benefit by this Act if he joins the plan prescribed by that Act by giving a notice to that effect to the Commission within twelve months of beginning to participate in the plan prescribed by that Act.
An employee who begins to contribute to the plan prescribed by that Act after 1 July 1978 without having previously contributed to the plan prescribed by that Act or to a pension plan may also benefit by this Act by giving notice within the time limit provided in the first paragraph.
1978, c. 16, s. 5; 1982, c. 51, s. 117.