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PUBLIC LAW 98-168—NOV. 29, 1983 97 STAT. 1111 (2) computing the amount of such benefits, if any, without including credit for such service; and (3) subtracting the amount computed under clause (2) from the amount computed under clause (1). (h) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall furnish to the appropriate agency head (as defined in section 205(a)(2)) such information as such agency head considers necessary to carry out this section. Information submittal. TRANSFER OF CREDIT TO NEW RETIREMENT SYSTEM SEC. 207. (a) Any covered employee who first becomes employed in 5 USC 8331 note, civilian service by the Government or first takes office in civilian service in the Government on or after January 1, 1984, shall become subject to such new Government retirement system as may be established. (b) In the case of any covered employee who is subject to a covered retirement system on or after January 1, 1984, and thereafter becomes subject to a new Government retirement system— {1) credit for the service of such employee to which section 204(a) applies shall be transferred from such covered retirement system to the new Government retirement system for the pur- poses of the new Government retirement system; and (2) such service shall be considered not to be creditable service for the purposes of such covered retirement system, effective on the date on which such employee becomes subject to such new Government retirement system. ELECTIONS BY CERTAIN COVERED EMPOLYEES SEC. 208. (a) Any individual performing service of a type referred 5 USC 8331 note, to in clause ih, (ii), (iii), or (iv) of section 210(a)(5) of the Social Security Act beginning on or before December 31, 1983, may— Ante, p. 67. (1) if such individual is then currently a participant in a covered retirement system, elect by written application submit- ted before January 1, 1984— (A) to terminate participation in such system, effective after December 31, 1983; or (B) to remain under such system, as if the preceding sections of this Act and the amendments made by this Act had not been enacted; or (2) if such individual is then currently not a participant in a covered retirement system, elect by written application— (A) to become a participant under such system (if such individual is otherwise eligible to participate in the system), subject to the preceding sections of this Act and the amend- ments made by this Act; or (B) to become a participant under such system (if such individual is otherwise eligible to participate in the system), as if the preceding sections of this Act and the amendments made by this Act had not been enacted. (b) An application by an individual under subsection (a) shall be submitted to the official by whom such covered employee is paid. (c) Any individual who elects to terminate participation in a covered retirement system under subsection (a)(l)(A) is entitled to have such individual's contributions to the retirement system refunded, in accordance with applicable provisions of law, as if such Refund of retirement contributions.