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PUBLIC LAW 763-SEPT. 1, 1954

appointee to such position shall be compensated in accordance with the scale of pay applicable to such position. SEC. 115. The term "department" shall have the same meaning in this title as when used in the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.

5 USC 1071 note.

TITLE II — AMENDMENTS TO THE FEDERAL E M P L O Y E E S P A Y ACT O F 1945, A S A M E N D E D SEC. 201. This title may be cited as the "Federal Employees P a y Act Amendments of 1954". SEC. 202. (a) Subsection (a) of section 101 of the Federal Employees P a y Act of 1945, as amended, is amended by striking out "titles II and III " and inserting in lieu thereof "titles II, III, and IV". (b) Subsection (b) of such section 101 is hereby repealed.

Short title.

59 Stat. 295. 5 USC 901. Repeal.

COMPENSATION FOR OVERTIME WORK

SEC. 203. Section 201 of the Federal Employees P a y Act of 1945, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 201. All hours of work officially ordered or approved in excess of forty hours in any administrative workweek performed by officers and employees to whom this title applies shall be considered to be overtime work and compensation for such overtime work, except as otherwise provided for in this Act, shall be at the following rates: "(1) For each officer and employee whose basic compensation is at a rate which does not exceed the minimum scheduled rate of basic compensation provided for grade GS-9 in the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, the overtime hourly rate of compensation shall be an amount equal to one and one-half times the hourly rate of basic compensation of such officer or employee, and all of such amount shall be considered premium compensation. "(2) For each officer and employee whose basic compensation is at a rate which exceeds the minimum scheduled rate of basic compensation provided for grade GS-9 in the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, the overtime hourly rate of compensation shall be an amount equal to one and one-half times the hourly rate of such minimum scheduled rate of basic compensation, and all of such amount shall be considered premium compensation." SEC. 204. Section 202(a) of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 202. (a) The head of any department, independent establishment, or agency, including Government-owned or controlled corporations, or of the municipal government of the District of Columbia, or the head of any legislative or judicial agency to which this title applies, (1) may, at the request of any officer or employee, grant such officer or employee compensatory time off from his scheduled tour of duty in lieu of payment for an equal amount of time spent in irregular or occasional overtime work, and (2) may, at his own discretion, provide that any officer or employee, whose rate of basic compensation is in excess of the maximum scheduled rate of basic compensation provided for grade GS-9 in the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, shall be compensated for irregular or occasional overtime work for which compensation would be due under this Act with an equal amount of compensatory time off from his scheduled tour of duty in lieu of such compensation." SEC. 205. (a) Section 203 of the Federal Employees P a y Act of 1945, as amended, is redesignated as section 205, and wherever such section number appears in such Act or in any other provision of law it is amended to conform to the redesignation prescribed by this subsection.

5 USC 911.

5 USC 1113.

5 USC 912. Iregular time.

5 USC 913; post, p. 1110.

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