Volume 67
Public Law 83–18
To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, with respect to the survivorship benefits granted to Members of Congress.
Approved April 4, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, with respect to the survivorship benefits granted to Members of Congress.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (d) of section 4 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended by the Act of August 4, 1939 (Public, Numbered 263,
Seventy-sixth Congress), which is referred to in paragraph (5) of section 3A of such Act, is amended by striking out the colon after the word “section” and the following: “Provided, That no election in lieu of the life annuity provided herein shall become effective in case an employee dies within thirty days after the effective date of retirement, and in the event of such death within this period, such death shall be considered as a death in active service”.
Sec. 2.
The amendment made by this Act shall take effect as of
Effective date.
January 1, 1953.
Approved April 4, 1953.