[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR1600.3]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
         CHAPTER VI--FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT INVESTMENT BOARD
 
PART 1600--EMPLOYEE ELECTIONS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE THRIFT SAVINGS PLAN--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart B--Elections
 
Sec. 1600.3  Eligibility of a Federal Employees' Retirement System employee to make an election.

    (a) Each employee who was an employee on January 1, 1987 and 
continues as an employee without a break in service from January 1, 1987 
through April 1, 1987 may make an election during the open season which 
begins on February 15, 1987 and ends on April 30, 1987.
    (b) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, each 
employee who is not eligible by virtue of paragraph (a) of this section 
to make an election during the open season beginning on February 15, 
1987 shall not be eligible to make an election until the second open 
season (determined in accordance with paragraph (d) of this section) 
beginning after such employee's date of commencement of service as an 
employee.
    (c) Any employee who is reemployed by the federal government and 
who, during a previous period of service, had become eligible to 
participate in the Thrift Saving Plan under the foregoing paragraphs (a) 
or (b) of this section shall be eligible during the first open season 
(determined in accordance with paragraph (d) of this section) beginning 
after the date of reemployment to make an election.
    (d) For an employee employed or reemployed during any open season, 
but whose employment or reemployment during such open season is prior to 
the election period occurring during the last calendar month of such 
open season, the open season during which the employee was employed or 
reemployed shall be considered the first open season.

[52 FR 45802, Dec. 2, 1987, as amended at 53 FR 23379, June 22, 1988]