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[72 Stat. 960]
PUBLIC LAW 85-000—MMMM. DD, 1958
[72 Stat. 960]

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62 Stat. 793.

PUBLIC LAW 86-795-AUG. 28, 1958

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bursement shall be credited to the appropriation, fund, or account utilized for paying such compensation, travel expenses, or allowances, (d) Nothing in section 1914 of title 18, United States Code, relative to augmenting salaries of Government employees shall prevent an employee detailed under this section from being paid or reimbursed by an international organization for allowances or expenses incurred in the performance of duties required by the detail. TRANSFERS

SEC. 4. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, Executive order, or regulation, any employee serving under a Federal appointment not limited to one year or less who transfers to an international organization is entitled to the following, if the transfer is made with the consent of the head of his agency, except that the provisions of paragraph (5) relating to reemployment rights, and the provisions of paragraph (6) relating to rates of basic compensation payable upon reemployment shall not apply to Congressional employees: Retirement. (1) To retain coverage and all rights and benefits under any system established by law for the retirement of civilian employees of the United States, if all necessary employee deductions and agency contributions in payment for such coverage, rights, and benefits for the period of employment with the international organization are currently deposited in the system's fund or depository, and for such purj)Ose service as an officer or employee of the international organization shall be considered to be creditable service under any such system, Life insurance. (2) To retain coverage and all rights and benefits under the Federal 68 Stat. 736. 5 USC 2091 note. Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. ch. 24), if all necessary employee deductions and agency contributions in payment for such coverage, rights, and benefits for the period of employment with the international organization are currently deposited in the Employees' Life Insurance Fund created by section 5 (c) of the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, 68 Stat. 738. as amended (5 U.S.C. 2094 (c)), and for such purpose service as an officer or employee of the international organization shall be considered to be service as an officer or employee of the United States. Disability com(3) To retain coverage and all rie:hts and benefits under the Federal 39 Stat.'742; 63 Employees' Compensation Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. ch. 15), and for this purpose his employment with the international organization 5 USC 75 1 note. shall be deemed to be employment by the United States. However, in any case in which the injured employee, or his dependents in case of death, receives from the international organization any payment (including any allowance, gratuity, payment under an insurance policy for which the premium is wholly paid by that organization, or other benefit of any kind), on account of the same injury or death, the amount of such payments shall be credited against any benefits payable under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act as follows: (A) payments on account of injury or disability shall be credited against disability compensation payable to the injured employee; and (B) payments on account of death shall be credited against death compensation payable to dependents of the deceased employee. Annual leave. (4) To elect to retain to his credit all accumulated and current accrued annual leave to which entitled at the time of transfer to an international organization which would otherwise be liquidated by a lump-sum payment. On the request of an employee at any time prior to reemployment, payment shall be made for all of the leave retained. I n any case in which an employee receives a lump-sum payment and reemployment occurs within six months following the date