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 [59 STAT. whole or any part of, or the whole or any part of the functions of, any agency not so named. No reorganization contained in any reorganization plan shall take effect if the reorganization plan is in violation of this subsection. The agencies above referred to in this subsection are as follows: Federal Communications Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, United States Tariff Com- mission, and Veterans' Administration. status of certain (e) If, since January 1, 1945, Congress has by law established the agencies, status of any agency in relation to other agencies or transferred any function to any agency, no reorganization plan shall provide for, and no reorganization under this Act shall have the effect of, changing the status of such agency in relation to other agencies or of abolish- ing any such transferred function or providing for its exercise by or under the supervision of any other agency. Timelimitation. (f) No reorganization specified in a reorganization plan shall take effect unless the plan is transmitted to the Congress before April 1, 1948. Effective date. Computation of sixty-day period. Post, p. 618. Provisions of plan; when operative. TAKING EFFECT OF BEORGANIZATIONS SEC. 6. (a) The reorganizations specified in the plan shall take effect in accordance with the plan upon the expiration of the first period of sixty calendar days, of continuous session of the Congress, following the date on which the plan is transmitted to it; but only if, between the date of transmittal and the expiration of such sixty-day period there has not been passed by the two Houses a concurrent reso- lution stating in substance that the Congress does not favor the reor- ganization plan. (b) For the purposes of subsection (a)- (1) continuity of session shall be considered as broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die; but (2) in the computation of the sixty-day period there shall be excluded the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain; except that if a resolution (as defined in section 202) with respect to such reorganization plan has been passed by one House and sent to the other, no exclusion under this paragraph shall be made by reason of adjournments of the first House taken thereafter. (c) Any provision of the plan may, under provisions contained in the plan, be made operative at a time later than the date on which the plan shall otherwise take effect. DEFINITION OF "AGENYT" SEC. 7. When used in this Act, the term "agency" means any exec- utive department, commission, independent establishment, corpora- tion wholly or partly owned by the United States which is an instru- mentality of the United States, board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, authority, administration, or other establishment, in the exec- utive branch of the Government. Such term does not include the Comptroller General of the United States or the General Accounting Office, which are a part of the legislative branch of the Government. MATTERS DEEMED TO BE REOBGANIZATIONS Srx. 8 . For the purposes of this Act any transfer, consolidation, coordination, abolition, change or designation of name or title, dis- position, winding up of affairs, or provision for the appointment and compensation of the head or assistant heads of an agency, referred to in section 3 or 4, shall be deemed a "reorganization". PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 582-DEC. 20, 1945 616

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