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PUBLIC LAW 85-462-JUNE 20, 1958

1950 (Public Law 636, Eighty-first Congress), as amended (5 V. S. C. 61f-61k), for services rendered during the period beginning on the first day of the first pay period which began on or after January 1, 1958, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act by an officer or employee who dies during such period. Such retroactive compensation or salary shall not be considered as basic salary for the purpose of the Civil Service Retirement Act in the case of any such retired or deceased officer or employee. (b) For the purposes of this section, service in the Armed Forces of the United States, in the case of an individual relieved from training and service in the Armed Forces of the United States or discharged from hospitalization following such training and service, shall include the period provided by law for the mandatory restoration oi such individual to a position in or under the Federal Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia. SEC. 9. (a) The Director of the Bureau of the Budget is authorized and directed to provide by regulation for the absorption from the respective applicable appropriations or funds available for the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted and for the immediately succeeding fiscal years, by the respective departments, agencies, establishments, and corporations in the executive branch, to such extent as the Director deems practicable, of the costs of the increases in basic compensation provided by this Act. (b) Nothing contained in subsection (a) of this section shall be held or considered to rec[uire (1) the separation from the service of any individual by reduction in force or other personnel action or (2) the placing of any individual in a leave-without-pay status. (c) Subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to the field service of the Post Office Department and to such other departments, agencies, establishments, and corporations in the executive branch as the Director, with the approval of the President, may designate. SEC. 10. Section 505 of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1105), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: "(f) The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts is authorized to place a total of four positions in grade 17 of the General Schedule. Sucli positions shall be in addition to the number of positions authorized to be placed in such grade by subsection (b). ''(g) The Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization is authorized to place a total of eleven positions in grade 17 of the General Schedule. Such positions shall be in addition to the number of positions authorized to be placed in such grade by subsection (b). "(h) In any case in which, subsequent to if'ebruary 1, 1958, provisions are included in a general appropriation Act" authorizing an agency of the Government to place additional positions in grade 16,17, or 18, the total number of positions authorized by this section to be placed in such grades shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be deemed to have been reduced by the number of positions authorized by such provisions to be placed in such grades. Such reduction shall be deemed to have occurred in the following order: first, from any number specifically authorized for such agency under this section, and second, from the maximum number of positions authorized to be placed in such grades under subsection (b) irrespective of the agency to which such positions are allocated. "(i) Appointments to positions in grades 16,17, and 18 of the General Schedule shall be made only upon approval by the Civil Service Commission of the qualifications of the proposed appointees, except that this subsection shall not apply to those positions—

64 Stat. 395.

70 Stat. 743. 5 USC 2251. et saq.

A b a o r p t Ion of coata.

Exceptiona.

Siipergrade poaltiona. 69 Stat. 179.

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