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[CITE: 5USC8471]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart G--Insurance and Annuities
 
            CHAPTER 84--FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM
 
 SUBCHAPTER VII--FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
 
Sec. 8471. Definitions

    For the purposes of this subchapter--
        (1) the term ``beneficiary'' means an individual (other than a 
    participant) entitled to payment from the Thrift Savings Fund under 
    subchapter III of this chapter;
        (2) the term ``Council'' means the Employee Thrift Advisory 
    Council established under section 8473 of this title;
        (3) the term ``participant'' means an individual for whom an 
    account has been established under section 8439 of this title;
        (4) the term ``person'' means an individual, partnership, joint 
    venture, corporation, mutual company, joint-stock company, trust, 
    estate, unincorporated organization, association, or labor 
    organization; and
        (5) the term ``Thrift Savings Fund'' means the Thrift Savings 
    Fund established under section 8437 of this title.

(Added Pub. L. 99-335, title I, Sec. 101(a), June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 
577.)


                             Effective Date

    Subchapter VII effective June 6, 1986, see section 702(b)(1) of Pub. 
L. 99-335, set out as a note under section 8401 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 8438 of this title; title 39 
section 1005.
