Each person becoming a member on the operative date shall be entitled to prior service credit for service rendered the Government. In the case of any employee who shall have been a member of the Civil Service Retirement Fund of the United States Government and shall have received a refund or refunds of contributions made to such fund, the allowance of prior service credit shall be conditioned upon such person making a contribution to the fund of the full amount of refund or refunds received by such employee.

Payment of such contribution shall be due as of the operative date and shall be made in a lump sum, or in installments under rules prescribed by the Board. Regular interest thereon shall begin to accrue from the operative date, which shall become a part of the principal sum to be paid by any such person.
In the case of any employee who shall be a member of the Civil Service Retirement Fund of the United States Government at the operative, whether in an active or inactive status, prior service credit shall be granted only when such employee definitely terminates his membership in such fund and receives a refund of his accumulated contributions therefrom and makes a payment to this fund of the full amount thereof, including regular interest from the date of such termination, if subsequent to the operative date, to the date of payment.

Each member entitled to prior service credit shall file with the Board, on a form prescribed by the Board and under such rules as it may adopt, a detailed statement of all such prior service for which the member claims credit. Such claim shall be verified by the Board as soon as practicable after the filing thereof. Upon such verification, the Board shall cause to be issued a statement of prior service, certifying to the member the length of prior service for which credit has been granted. Such statement shall be final and conclusive for the purposes of the Fund as to such service, except

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for the purposes of the Fund as to such service, except for the correction of error, provided that any member may, within one (1) year from the date of original issuance of such certificate, request the Board to modify or correct such prior service certificate. Such certificate shall become null and void upon the death of a member, and shall be canceled automatically upon receipt by a member of a refund of his contributions prescribed by the provisions of this Chapter. Any employee who shall not be in service on the operative date or who is on an approved leave of absence on such date, for disability, military leave or other cause, shall be entitled to receive credit for prior service only when such employee shall have completed at least three (3) years of contributing membership service subsequent to the operative date.

SOURCE: GC § 4206, as amended by P.L. 10-188 (Aug. 18, 1970).