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[CITE: 22USC4069]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                       CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
 
       SUBCHAPTER VIII--FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY
 
        Part I--Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System
 
Sec. 4069. Thrift Savings Fund participation

    Participants in this System shall be deemed to be employees for the 
purposes of section 8351 of title 5. Any reference in such section 8351 
or in subchapter III of chapter 84 of such title 5 to retirement or 
separation under subchapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of such 
title 5 shall be deemed to be references to retirement or separation 
under part I or II of this subchapter with similar benefits or 
entitlements with respect to participants under such part I or II, 
respectively.

(Pub. L. 96-465, title I, Sec. 829, as added Pub. L. 99-556, title IV, 
Sec. 404(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3137.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Jan. 1, 1987, see section 408 of Pub. L. 99-556, 
set out as an Effective Date of 1986 Amendment note under section 4046 
of this title.
