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 PUBLIC LAW 101-86—AUG. 16, 1989 103 STAT. 593 Piiblic Law 101-86 101st Congress An Act To provide that a Federal annuitant or former member of a uniformed service who returns to Government service, under a temporary appointment, to assist in Aug. 16 1989 carrying out the 1990 decennial census of population shall be exempt from certain —raxt i»Bni— provisions of title 5, United States Code, relating to offsets from pay and other i•• J benefits. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS; DESCRIPTION OF TEMPORARY POSITIONS. 13 USC 23 note. (a) DEFINITIONS.— For purposes of this Act— (1) the term "annuitant" means an annuitant within the meaning of section 8331(9) or 8401(2) of title 5, United States Code; (2) the term "temporary" is used in the same way as described in section 24(b) of title 13, United States Code; (3) the term "census of population" has the meaning given that term by section 141(g) of title 13, United States Code; (4) the term "active employee" means an employee within the meaning of section 8331(1) or 8401(11) of title 5, United States Code; (5) the term "retired or retainer pay" has the meaning given that term by section 5531(3) of title 5, United States Code; and (6) the term "uniformed services" has the meaning given that term by section 2101(3) of title 5, United States Code. (b) DESCRIPTION OF TEMPORARY POSITIONS. —T his Act applies with respect to service in any temporary position within the Bureau of the Census established for purposes relating to the 1990 decennial census of population (as determined under regulations which the Secretary of Commerce shall prescribe). SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FOR REEMPLOYED ANNUITANTS. 13 USC 23 note. (a) GENERALLY. —Subject to subsection (b), an annuitant who becomes reemployed in a temporary position described in section 1(b) shall, with respect to any period of service in such position, be exempt from section 8344 or 8468 of title 5, United States Code (as otherwise applicable). (b) EXCEPTIONS.—T his section— (1) shall not apply with respect to any annuitant who, imme- diately before being placed in the temporary position, was employed in a Government position in which pay for that annuitant was being reduced under either of the provisions referred to in subsection (a); and (2) shall not have the effect of exempting a reemployed annu- itant from section 8344 or 8468 of title 5, United States Code, after the expiration of the period described in section 4. (c) CLARIFICATION.— Nothing in this section shall have the effect of causing a reemployed annuitant to be treated as an active employee

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