§ 8584.
A civilian member may be retired at any time after his sixty-fifth birthday, and shall be retired by June 30 following that birthday. However, in any special case the Secretary of the Navy may defer the retirement of a member until a date not later than the member’s seventieth birthday.
([Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041], [70A Stat. 439], § 7084; renumbered § 8584, [Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(c)(1)], Aug. 13, 2018, [132 Stat. 1836].)