8.8.If an employee or a person who was a member of the Teachers Pension Plan or the Civil Service Superannuation Plan and who did not, on a later date, become a member of the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan or the Pension Plan of Management Personnel before becoming a member of this plan would become eligible for a pension under the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan if the years and parts of a year of service credited or counted under this plan, the Teachers Pension Plan or the Civil Service Superannuation Plan, for which contributions were not reimbursed, were credited or counted under the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan, that employee or person shall retire under the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan. For the purposes of eligibility for benefits under the Government and Public Employees Retirement Plan, this plan, the Teachers Pension Plan or the Civil Service Superannuation Plan and computation of those benefits, membership of the employee or person in these plans is deemed to have ceased on the date the employee or person ceased to be a member of this plan under section 8, the Teachers Pension Plan under section 2.2 of the Act respecting the Teachers Pension Plan (chapter R-11) or the Civil Service Superannuation Plan under section 55.1 of the Act respecting the Civil Service Superannuation Plan (chapter R-12), whichever is latest. In the event of death, the application for benefits is deemed to have been made on the day of the death.