PUBLIC LAW 99-335—JUNE 6, 1986
100 STAT. 529
"(A) shall prospectively void any election made by the employee or Member under section 8420 with respect to such individual; or "(B) shall, if an election was made by the employee or Member under section 8420 with respect to a different individual, prospectively void such election if appropriate written application is made by such employee or Member at the time of making the election under this subsection. "(4) Any election under this subsection made by an employee or Member on behalf of an individual after the retirement of such employee or Member shall not be effective if— "(A) the employee or Member was married to such individual at the time of retirement; and "(B) the annuity rights of such individual based on the service of such employee or Member were then waived under subsection (a). "(c)(1) An employee or Member who is unmarried at the time of retiring under this chapter and who later marries may irrevocably elect, in a signed writing received by the Office within 2 years after such employee or Member marries or, if later, within 2 years after the death or remarriage of any former spouse of such employee or Member who was entitled to a survivor annuity under section 8445 (or of the last such surviving former spouse, if there was more than one), a reduction in the current annuity of the retired employee or Member, in accordance with section 8419(a). "(2) The election and reduction shall take effect the first day of the first month beginning 9 months after the date of marriage. Any such election to provide a survivor annuity for an individual— "(A) shall prospectively void any election made by the employee or Member under section 8420 with respect to such individual; or "(B) shall, if an election was made by the employee or Member under section 8420 with respect to a different individual, prospectively void such election if appropriate written application is made by such employee or Member at the time of making the election under this subsection. "(d)(1) An employee or Member— "(A) who is married on the date of retiring under this chapter, and "(B) with respect to whose spouse a waiver under subsection (a) has been made, may, during the 18-month period beginning on such date, elect to have a reduction made under section 8419 in order to provide a survivor annuity under section 8442 for such spouse. "(2)(A) An election under this subsection shall not be effective unless the amount described in subparagraph (B) is deposited into the Fund before the expiration of the 18-month period referred to in paragraph (1). "(B) The amount to be deposited under this subparagraph is equal to the sum of— "(i) the difference (for the period between the date on which the annuity of the former employee or Member commences and the date on which reductions pursuant to the election under this subsection commence) between the amount paid to the former employee or Member from the Fund under this chapter and the amount which would have been paid if such election had been made at the time of retirement; and
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