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 90 STAT. 834 Foreign Service Retirement Amendments of 1976. 22 USC 801 note.

PUBLIC LAW 94-350—JULY 12, 1976 TITLE V — F O K E I G ^ SERVICE RETIREMENT SHORT TITLE

SEC. 500, This title may be cited as the "Foreign Service Retirement Amendments of 1976". FOREIGN SERVICE STAFF PARTICIPATION"

22 USC 1063.

SEC. 501. (a) Section 803 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 is amended by adding the following paragraph at the end of subsection (a) thereof: "(4) All Foreign Service staff officers and employees appointed by the Secretary of State or the Director of the United States Information Agency with milimited appointments.". (b) Section 803 of such Act is further amended by changing the reference at the end of subsection (b)(2) from "852(b)" to "811". (c) Section 803 of such Act is further amended by striking out subsection (c) thereof. DEFINITIONS

22 USC 1064.

SEC. 502. (a) The caption of section 804 of such Act is amended to read "DEFINITIONS".

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(b) Section 804 of such Act is amended by striking out all of such section except paragraph s (4), (5), and (6) of subsection (b) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: " W h e n used in this title unless otherwise specified, the term— " (1) ' A n n u i t a n t ' means any person including a former participant or survivor who meets all requirements for an annuity from the F u n d under the provisions of this or any other Act and who has filed claim therefor. " (2) 'Surviving spouse' means the surviving wife or husband of a participant or annuitant who, in the case of a death in Service or marriage after retirement, was married to the participant or annuitant for at least two years innnediately preceding his or her death or is the parent of a child born of the marriage. " (3) 'Child', except in section 841, means an unmarried child, under the age of eighteen years, or such unmarried child regardless of age who because of physical or mental disability incurred before age eighteen is incapable of self-support. I n addition to the offspring of the participant, such term includes (A) an adopted child, (B) a stepchild or recognized n a t u r a l child who received more than one-half support from the participant, and (C) a child who lived with and for whom a petition of adoption was filed by a participant, and who is adopted by the surviving spouse of the participant after the latter's death. Such term also includes an unmarried student below the age of twenty-two years. For this purpose a child whose twenty-second birthday occurs before July 1 or after August 31 of a calendar year, and while a student is deemed to have become twenty-two years of age on the first day of July after that birthday. " (4) 'Student' means a child regularly pursuing a full-time course of study or t r a i n i n g in residence in a high school, trade school, technical or vocational institute, junior college, college, vmiversity, or comparable recognized educational institution. A child who is a student shall not be deemed to have ceased to be a student during any interim between school years, semesters, or terms if the interim or other period of nonattendance does not exceed five calendar months and if the child shows to the satisfaction of the Secretary that he or

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