Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 89.djvu/732

 89 STAT. 672

PUBLIC LAW 94-123—OCT. 22, 1975 of a physician or dentist in effect and payable on the day before the effective date of this section and the annual rate of basic pay in effect and payable on such effective date for such jrrade and step. "(2) No part-time physician may be paid an aggregate amount of basic pay, pursuant to the rates applicable on the effective date of this section to physicians employed under this title, and special pay under this section in excess of $42,000 per annum, and no part-time dentist may be paid an aggregate amount of basic pay, pursuant to the rates applicable on the effective date of this section to dentists employed under this title, and special pay under this section in excess of $37,000 per annum. " (e)(1) Any agreement entered into by a physician or dentist under this section shall be with respect to a period of one year of service in the Department of Medicine and Surgery unless the physician or dentist requests an agreement for a longer period of service not to exceed four years. "(2)(A) Any such agreement shall provide that the physician or dentist, in the event that such physician or dentist voluntarily, or because of misconduct, fails to complete at least one year of service pursuant to such agreement, shall be required to refund the total amount received under this section, unless the Chief Medical Director, pursuant to the regulations prescribed under this section, determines that such failure is necessitated by circumstances beyond the control of the physician or dentist. "(B) Any such agreement shall specify the terms under which the Veterans' Administration and the physician or dentist may elect to terminate such agreement. "(3) Any amount of special pay payable under this section shall be paid in biweekly installments. (4)(A) Any physician or dentist who is employed in the Department of Medicine and Surgery on or before the effective date of this section and who enters into an agreement under this section during the forty-five-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of the Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparability Act of 1975 is entitled to special pay beginning on the effective date of this section. "(B) Any physician or dentist who becomes emploj'^ed in the Department of Medicine and Surgery after the effective date of this section and who enters into an agreement under this section before the close of the forty-five-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of the Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparabilit}^ Act of 1975 is entitled to special pay beginning on the date on which the physician or dentist becomes employed. "(C) Any physician or dentist who becomes employed in the Department of Medicine and Surgeiy after the close of the forty-fiveday period beginning on the date of the enactment of the Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparability Act of 1975, or who does not enter into any agreement under this section before the close of such 45-day period, and who thereafter enters into an agreement under this section is entitled to special pay beginning on the date on which the agreement is entered into, or the date on which the physician or dentist be^comes employed, whichever date is later. "(f) Any additional compensation provided as special pay under this section shall not be considered as basic pay for the purposes of

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