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PUBLIC LAW 234—OCT. 30, 1951

(f) All joint and survivor annuities heretofore and hereafter awarded shall be governed by the law under which the election of the joint and survivor annuity was made, except that the individual who made the election shall have the right to revoke the same in such manner and form as the Board may prescribe. An election shall be deemed to have been revoked if before or after the enactment hereof the spouse for whom the election was made predeceased the individual who made the election. Upon revocation of the election, or death of the spouse, as herein provided, the individual's annuity shall be increased to the amount which would have been payable had no election been made; such increased annuity shall, subject to the provisions of section 2(c) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, as amended, begin to accrue on the first of the calendar month following the calendar month in which the election was revoked or the spouse died but not before the calendar month next following the month of enactment hereof. (g) Jul pensions due in months following the first calendar month after the month of enactment hereof shall be increased by 15 per centum. (h) The increase in retirement annuities provided by this Act shall apply also to annuities heretofore awarded under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935, and the term "spouse" as used in this Act shall include the wife or husband of an employee who has been awarded an annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to annuities heretofore paid under the Railroad Retirement Acts in lump sums equal to their commuted values. (i) The annuity of the spouse of an employee who has been awarded an annuity under section 3(b) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935 or under section 2(a) 2 (b) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 prior to its amendment by Public Law 572, Seventy-ninth Congress, shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be one-half the annuity such employee would have received had the annuity been awarded at age sixty-five. (j) All recertifications by the Railroad Retirement Board required by reason of the provisions of this Act other than section 9 shall be made without application therefor. Recertifications pursuant to section 9 of this Act shall be made only upon application therefor in such manner and form and filed within such time as the Railroad Retirement Board may prescribe.

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AMENDMENTS TO THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT

SEC. 26. Section 1(k) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, as amended, is amended by adding before the period at the end of the first paragraph thereof the following: ": Provided further, That any calendar day on which no remuneration is payable to or accrues to an employee solely because of the application to him of mileage or work restrictions agreed upon in schedule agreements between employers and employees or solely because he is standing by for or laying over between regularly assigned trips or tours of duty shall not be considered either a day of unemployment or a day of sickness". SEC. 27. Subsection (a-1) of* section 4 of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, as amended, is amended by striking out all of subdivisions (iii) and (iv) thereof. SEC. 28. The provisions of sections 26 and 27 of this Act shall become effective with respect to registration periods beginning on and after January 1, 1952. Approved October 30, 1951, 9:30 a. m., E. S. T.

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45u."s/a^§364 Effective date,

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