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PUBLIC LAW 86-462-JUNE 20, 1968

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(2) If the officer or employee is receiving basic compensation immediately prior to the effective date of this section at a rate between two scheduled or two longevity rates, or between a scheduled and a longevity rate, of a grade in the General Schedule, he shall receive a rate of basic compensation at the higher of the two corresponding rates in effect on and after such date. (8) If the officer or employee (other than an officer or employee subject to paragraph (4) of this subsection), immediately prior to the effective date of this section, is receiving basic compensation at a rate in excess of the maximum longevity rate of his grade, or in excess of the maximum scheduled rate of his grade if there is no longevity rate for his ^n\de, he shall receive basic compensation at a rate equal to the rate which he received immediately prior to such effective date, increased by an amount equal to the amount of the increase made by this section in the maximum longevity rate, or the maximum scheduled rate, as the case may be, of his grade until (A) he leaves such position, or (li) he is entitled to receive basic compensation at a higher rate by 5 USC 1071 note. reason of the operation of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended; but, when his position becomes vacant, the rate of basic compensation of any subsequent appointee thereto shall be fixed in accordance with such Act, as amended. (4) If the officer or employee, immediately prior to the effective 69 Stat. 173. date of this section, is receiving, pursuant to paragraph (4) of section 5 USC 1113note. 2 (b) of the Federal Employees Salary Increase Act of 1955, an existing aggregate rate of compensation determined under sectioi^ 5 USC 926 note. 208 (b) of the Act of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1111; Public Law 763, Eighty-third Congress), plus the amount of the increase provided by section 2 of the Federal Employees Salary Increase Act of 1955, he shall receive an aggregate rate of compensation equal to the 69 Stat. 172. 5 note u s e 1113 and sum of (A) his existing aggregate rate of compensation determined under such section 208(b) of the Act of September 1, 1954, and (B) the amount of the increase provided by section 2 of the Federal Employees Salary Jncrease Act of 1955 and (C) the amount of the increase made'by this section in the maximum longevity rate of his grade, until (i) he leaves his position, or (_ii) he is entitled to receive aggregate compensation at a ni^her rate by reason of the operation of this Act or any other provision of law; but, when such position becomes vacant, the aggregate rate of compensation of any subsequent appointee thereto shall be fixed in accordance with applicable provisions of law. Subject to clauses (i) and (ii) of the immediately preceding sentence of this paragraph, the amount of the increase provided by this section shall be held and considered for the purposes of section 208(b) of such Act of September 1, 1954, to constitute a part of the existing aggregate rate of compensation of such employee. (5) If the officer or employee, at any time during the period beginning on the effective date of this section and ending on the date of enactment of this Act, was promoted from one grade under the Classi5 USC 1071 note. fication Act of 1949, as amended, to another such grade at a rate which is above the minimum rate thereof, his rate of basic compensation shall be adjusted retroactively from the effective date of this section to the date on which he was so promoted, on the basis of the rate which he was receiving during the period from such effective date to the date of such promotion and, from the date of such promotion, on the basis of the rate for that step of the appropriate grade of the General Schedule contained in this section which corresponds numerically to the step of the gyade of the General Schedule for such officer or employee which was in effect (without regard to this Act) at the time of such promotion.

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