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PUBLIC LAW 1 0 2 - J U L Y 2, 1953

61k j, except that payment under either such Act (1) shall be based upon the rate of compensation which he was receiving immediately prior to the date on which this Act became applicable to him, and (2) shall be made without regard to the limitations imposed by the amendments made by sections 4 and 5 of this Act with respect to the amounts of leave compensable under such Acts. (b) In the event any such exempted officer, without any break in the continuity of his service, again becomes subject to the Annual and Sick Leave xVct of 1951 upon the completion of his service as an exempted officer, the unused annual and sick leave standing to his credit at the time he was exempted from the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951 shall be deemed to have remained to his credit. SEC. 3. (a) Section 203(c) of the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951 is amended to read as follows: " (c) The annual leave provided for in this section, which is not used by an officer or employee, shall accumulate for use in succeeding years until it totals not to exceed thirty days at the beginning of the first complete biweekly pay period, or corresponding period in the case of an officer or employee who is not paid on the basis of biweekly pay periods, occurring in any year." (b) So much of section 203(d) of the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951 as precedes paragraph (1) thereof is amended to read as follows: " (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c), a maximum accumulation not to exceed forty-five days at the beginning of the first complete biweekly pay period, or corresponding period in the case of an officer or employee who is not paid on the basis of biweekly pay periods, in any year is authorized to the following categories of employees of the Federal Government, other than officers and employees in the Foreign Service of the United States under the Department of State, stationed outside the several States and the District of Columbia: ". (c) Section 208(a) of the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951 is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 208. (a) I n any case in which— "(1) the amount of accumulated annual leave to the credit of an officer or employee immediately following the end of the last complete biweekly pay period in the calendar year 1952, or corresponding period in the case of an officer or employee who is not paid on the basis of biweekly pay periods, under the provisions of law then applicable to such officer or employee is in excess of the amount allowable under the applicable provisions of section 203, or "(2) the amount of accumulated annual leave to the credit of an officer or employee who is subject to the provisions of section 203 (d) and who becomes subject to the provisions of section 203 (c) is in excess of the amount allowable under section 203(c), such excess shall remain to the credit of such officer or employee until used, but the use during any leave year of an amount in excess of the aggregate amount which snail have accrued during such year shall automatically reduce the maximum allowable accumulation at the beginning of the first complete biweekly pay period, or corresponding period in the case of an officer or employee who is not paid on the basis of biweekly pay periods, in the following leave year, until the accumulation of such officer or employee no longer exceeds the amount prescribed in the applicable provisions of section 203." SEC. 4. (a) The second and third sentences of the first section of the Act of December 21, 1944, are amended to read as follows: "Such lump-sum payment shall equal the compensation that such officer or

137 64 Stat. 395.

5 USC 20 61 note.

5 USC 2062. Maximum a c c umulation.

65 Stat. 682. 5 USC 2066.

Lump-sum payment. 5 8 Stat. 845. 5 USC 61b.

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