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PUBLIC LAW 89-301-OCT. 29, 1965

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(d) ^N'othing contained in this section shall affect the authority contained in any law pursuant to which rates of compensation may be fixed by administrative action. TKAVEL ON OF F I C I A L DUTY T I M E

SEC. 16. Section 204 of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, as amended (68 Stat. 1110; 5 U.S.C. 912b), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sentence: "To the maximum extent practicable, 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, shall schedule the time to be spent by an officer or employee in a travel status away from his official duty station within the regularly scheduled workweek of such officer or employee.". EFFECTIVE DATES

SEC. 17. This Act shall become effective as follows; (1) This section and sections 1, 9, 13, 15, 16, and 18, and section 3107(3) of title 39, United States Code, as contained in the amendment made by section 6(a) of this Act, shall become effective on the date of enactment of this Act. (2) Section 5 shall become effective on the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after the date of enactment of this Act. (3) Sections 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 14 shall become effective on the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after October 1, 1965. (4) Section 3 shall become effective on the ninetieth day following the date of enactment of this Act. ^ (5) Section 6(b), and section 3107(1) and (2) of title 39, United States Code, as contained in the amendment made by section 6(a) of this Act, shall become effective as of July 1, 1965. (6) For the purpose of determining the amount of insurance for which an individual is eligible under the Federal Employees' Group 736. Life Insurance Act of 1954, all changes in rates of compensation or 68uStat. 209 1 5 se salary which result from the enactment of this Act shall be held and note considered to be effective as of the date of such enactment. P A Y M E N T OF RETROACTR'E SALARY

SEC. 18. (a) Retroactive compensation or salary shall be paid by reason of this Act only in the case of an individual in the service of the United States (including service in the Armed Forces of the United States) or the municipal government of the District of Columbia on the date of enactment of this Act, except that such retroactive compensation or salary shall be paid (1) to an officer or employee who retired during the period beginning on the effective date prescribed by section 17(3) and ending on the date of enactment of this Act for services rendered during such period and (2) in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 3, 1950 (Public Law 636, Eighty-first Congress), as amended (5 U.S.C. 61f-61k), for services rendered during the period beginning on the effective date prescribed by section 17(3) 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

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