conversion to foreign service retirement system

conversion to foreign service retirement system Sec. 522. (a) In accordance with such regulations as the President may prescribe, all Foreign Service staff officers and employees with unlimited appointments who (1) have been appointed by the Secretary of State or the Director, United States Information Agency, and (2) arc participants in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System on the effective date of this section, shall be transferred to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System effective on such date. Their retirement contributions shall be transferred in accordance with section 811 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended by this title. (b) Mandatory retirement at age sixty as prescribed in section 63290 STAT. 847 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended by this title, shall not apply to any Foreign Service staff officer or employee who becomes a participant in the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System pursuant to subsection (a) of this section until such officer or employee completes ten years of continuous service in the Foreign Service exclusive of military service, in the Department of State or ten years of such continuous service in the United States Information Agency. (c) Any Foreign Service, staff officer or employee who becomes a participant in the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System pursuant to subsection (a) of this section who is age fifty-seven or over on the effective date of this section may retire voluntarily at any time prior to mandatory retirement and receive retirement benefits under section 821 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended by this title. (d) Section 9(b) of the Act of August 20, 1968 (82 Stat. 812), is repealed on the effective date of this section.