94 STAT. 2106
22 USC 4046.
Waiver.
PUBLIC LAW 96-465—OCT. 17, 1980
(f) A participant or survivor may make a special contribution at any time before receipt of annuity and may authorize payment by offset against initial annuity accruals. SEC. 806. COMPUTATION OF ANNUITIES.—(a) The annuity of a participant shall be equal to 2 percent of his or her average basic salary for the highest 3 consecutive years of service multiplied by the number of years, not exceeding 35, of service credit obtained in accordance with sections 816 and 817, except that the highest 3 years of service shall be used in computing the annuity of any participant who serves an assignment in a position, as described in section 302(b), to which the participant was appointed by the President and whose continuity of service in that position is interrupted prior to retirement by appointment or assignment to any other position determined by the Secretary of State to be of comparable importance. In determining the aggregate period of service upon which the annuity is to be based, the fractional part of a month, if any, shall not be counted. The annuity shall be reduced by 10 percent of any special contribution described in section 805(d) which is due for service for which no contributions were made and which remains unpaid unless the participant elects to eliminate the service involved for purposes of annuity computation. (b)(l)(A) Except to the extent provided otherwise under a written election under subparagraph (B) or (C), if at the time of retirement a participant or former participant is married (or has a former spouse who has not remarried before attaining age 60), the participant shall receive a reduced annuity and provide a survivor annuity for his or her spouse under this subsection or former spouse under section 814(b), or a combination of such annuities, as the case may be. (B) At the time of retirement, a married participant or former participant and his or her spouse may jointly elect in writing to waive a survivor annuity for that spouse under this section (or under section 814(b) if the spouse later qualifies as a former spouse under section 804(6)), or to reduce such survivor annuity under this section (or section 814(b)) by designating a portion of the annuity of the participant as the base for the survivor benefit. In the event the marriage is dissolved following an election for such a reduced annuity and the spouse qualifies as a former spouse, the base used in calculating any annuity of the former spouse under section 814(b) may not exceed the portion of the participant's annuity designated under this subparagraph. (C) If a participant or former participant has a former spouse, the participant and such former spouse may jointly elect by spousal agreement under section 820(b)(l) to waive a survivor annuity under section 814(b) for that former spouse if the election is made (i) before the end of the 12-month period after the divorce or annulment involving that former spouse becomes final or (ii) at the time of retirement, whichever occurs first. (D) The Secretary of State may prescribe regulations under which a participant or former participant may make an election under subparagraph (B) or (C) without the participant's spouse or former spouse if the participant establishes to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State that the participant does not know, and has teiken all reasonable steps to determine, the whereabouts of the spouse or former spouse. (2) The annuity of a participant or former participant providing a survivor benefit under this section (or section 814(b)), excluding any portion of the annuity not designated or committed as a base for any survivor annuity, shall be reduced by 2 ¥2 percent of the first $3,600 plus 10 percent of any amount over $3,600. The reduction under this
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