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PUBLIC LAW 86-707-SEPT. 6, 1960

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transportation of a replacement for such motor vehicle for such officer or employee may be authorized by the Director in accordance with this paragraph." TITLE

IV—AMENDMENTS TO ANNUAL AND L E A V E ACT O F 1951

SICK

SEC. 401. Subsections (d), (e), and (f) of section 203 of the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2062 (d), (e), and (f)), are amended to read as follows: ^^ ^*^*' *'^" " (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c), a maxi- M^^^miuifT'ccumum accumulation not to exceed forty-five days at the beginning of mutation. the first complete biweekly pay period, or corresponding pay period in the case of an officer or employee who is not paid on the basis of biweekly pav periods, in any year is authorized for the following categories ot employees of the Federal Government stationed outside the United States: "(1) Persons directly recruited or transferred by the Federal Government (A) from the United States, or (B) from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the possessions of the United States for employment outside the area of recruitment or from which transferred. "(2) Persons employed locally but (A)(i) who were originally recruited from the United States, or from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the possessions of the United States but outside the area of employment, (ii) who have been in substantially continuous employment by other Federal agencies. United States firms, interests or organizations, international organizations in which the United States Government participates, or foreign governments, and (iii) whose conditions of employment provide for their return transportation to the United States or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the possessions of the United States, or (B)(i) who were at the time of employment temporarily absent, for the purpose of travel or formal study, from the United States, or from their respective places of residence in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the possessions of the United States and (ii) who, during such temporary absence, have maintained residence in the United States or in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the possessions of the United States but outside the area of employment. "(3) Persons who are not normally residents of the area concerned and who are discharged from service in the Armed Forces of the United States to accept employment with an agency of the Federal Government. "(e) The leave granted pursuant to this title shall be exclusive of the time actually and necessarily occupied in going to and from the post of duty and exclusive of such time as may be necessarily occupied in awaiting transportation, in the case of an officer or employee (1) who is within the purview of subsection (d) of this section, (2) whose post of duty is outside the United States, and (3) who returns on leave to the United States, or to his place of residence, which is outside the area of employment, in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the possessions of the United States. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to more than one period of leave in a prescribed tour of duty at a post outside the United States. " (f) Upon completion of twenty-four months of continuous service outside the United States, officers and employees may be granted, in accordance with regulations of the President, leave of absence at a rate not to exceed one week for each four months of such service without regard to any other leave provided by this title, for use in

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