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PUBLIC I A W 8 6 - 3 8 2 - S E P T. 28,

1959

by a plan shall be credited to its contingency reserve. The contingency reserves may be used to defray increases in future rates, or may be applied to reduce the contributions of employees and the Government to, or to increase the benefits provided by, the plan from which such reserves are derived, as the Commission shall from time to time determine. (c) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to invest and reinvest any of the moneys in the Fund in interest-bearing obligations of the United States and to sell such obligations of the United States for the purposes of the Fund. The interest on and the proceeds from the sale of any such obligations shall become a part of the Fund. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

SEC. 9. (a) There are hereby authorized to be expended from the Employees' Life Insurance Fund, without regard to limitations on expenditures from that Fund, for the fiscal years 1960 and 1961, such sums as may be necessary to pay administrative expenses incurred by the Commission in carrying out the health benefits provisions of this Act. Reimbursements to the Employees' Life Insurance Fund for sums so expended, together with interest at a rate to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be made from the Employees Health Benefits Fund. (b) The Employees Health Benefits Fund is hereby made available (1) to reimburse the Employees' Life Insurance Fund for sums expended by the Commission in administering the provisions of this Act for the fiscal years 1960 and 1961 and (2), within such limitations as may be specified annually by the Congress, to pay such expenses for subsequent fiscal years. ADMINISTRATION

SEC. 10. (a) The Commission is authorized to promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. (b) Regulations of the Commission shall include regulations with respect to the beginning and ending dates of coverage of employees and annuitants and members of their families under health benefits plans, and for such purpose may permit such coverage to continue, exclusive of the temporary extension of coverage described in section 6(f), until the end oi the pay period in which an employee is separated from service or until the end of the month in which an annuitant ceases to be entitled to annuity^ and in case of the death of such employee or annuitant may permit a temporary extension of the coverage of the members of his family for a period not to exceed ninety days. (c) Any employee enrolled in a plan under this Act who is removed or suspended without pay and later reinstated or restored to duty on the ground that such removal or suspension was unjustified or unwarranted shall not be deprived of coverage or benefits for the interim but shall have his coverage restored to the same extent and effect as though such removal or suspension had not taken place, and appropriate adjustments shall be made in premiums, subscription charges, contributions, and claims. 32716 O-60—48

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