PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 536 , 537-JULY 29, 30, 1942 forty", and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon, and by inserting the following clause after the semicolon: "nor be less than an amount equal to the average annual basic salary, pay, or compensation received by the employee during any five consecutive years of allow- able service at the option of the employee, multiplied by the number of years of service, not exceeding thirty-five years, and divided by seventy :" SEC. 4. That paragraph (b) of section 101 of title 2, Canal Zone Code, is stricken out, and there is inserted in lieu thereof the following: Refund for service " (b) In the case of any employee to whom this article applies who shall be transferred to a position not within the purview of this article, or who shall become absolutely separated from the service before he shall have completed an aggregate of five years of service computed in accordance with section 97 of this title, the amount of deductions from his basic salary, pay, or compensation credited to his individual account, together with interest at 4 per centum compounded Invluntary separa- on June 30 of each year shall be returned to such employee: Provided, tion. That when an employee becomes involuntarily separated from the service, not by removal for cause on charges of misconduct or delin- quency before completing five years of creditable service the total amount of deductions from his basic salary, pay, or compensation with interest at 4 per centum compounded on June 30 of each year Redepositofdeduc- shall be returned to such employee: Provided further, That all tions upon reinstate- ment,n etc. sta deductions from basic salary, pay, or compensation so returned to an employee must, upon reinstatement, retransfer, or reappointment to a position coming within the purview of this article, be redeposited with interest at 4 per centum compounded on June 30 of each year before such employee may derive any benefits under this article, except as provided in this section, but interest shall not be required covering any period of separation from the service." SEC. 5. That section 102 of title 2, Canal Zone Code, is hereby amended, effective from January 1, 1940, by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph: "Annuitant." "The term 'annuitant' as used in this article shall include any employee who has met all requirements of the article for title and has filed claim therefor, notwithstanding final administrative action was not taken by the Civil Service Commission prior to his death. Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to reduce any benefit otherwise payable." Separation prior to SEC. 6. Except as may be otherwise specifically provided herein nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to affect any rights of persons separated prior to the effective date of this Act, but all such rights shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as though this Act had not been made. SEC. 7 . This Act shall take effect upon approval, except as other- wise provided herein. Approved, July 29, 1942. [CHAPTER 537] AN ACT July 30, 1942 AN ACT [s. 2330] To enable the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two-hundredth [Public Law 688] Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson to carry out and give effect to certain approved plans. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Thomas Jefferson United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United mission. States Commission for the Celebration of the Two-hundredth Anni- versary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson, established by the joint [56 STAT.
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