[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR19.3]

[Page 101-102]
 
                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 19--BENEFITS FOR SPOUSES AND FORMER SPOUSES OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY SYSTEM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 19.3  Participants.

    The following persons are participants in the System:

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    (a) Members of the Service serving under a career appointment or as 
a career candidate under section 306 of the Act (1) in the Senior 
Foreign Service, or (2) assigned to a salary class in the Foreign 
Service Schedule;
    (b) Any person not otherwise entitled to be a participant who has 
served as chief of mission or an ambassador at large for an aggregate 
period of 20 years or more, exclusive of extra service credit for 
service at unhealthful posts, and who has paid into the Fund a special 
contribution for each year of service;
    (c) Any individual who was appointed as a Binational Center Grantee 
and who completed, prior to February 15, 1981, at least 5 years of 
satisfactory service as a grantee, as determined by the Director of 
Personnel of USICA, or under any other appointment under the Foreign 
Service Act of 1946, as amended, who has paid into the Fund a special 
contribution for such service.
    (d) Any person converted to the competitive service pursuant to 
section 2104 of the Act who elects to participate in the System pursuant 
to section 2106(b)(1) or (2) shall remain a participant so long as he/
she is employed in an agency which is authorized to utilize the Foreign 
Service personnel system.