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103 STAT. 34 PUBLIC LAW 101-12—APR. 10, 1989 employment during the period pending the outcome of any petition for review under subsection (e). "(C) Nothing in the provisions of this paragraph may be construed to require any award of back pay or attorney fees be paid before the decision is final.". 5 USC 1201 note. SEC. 7. SAVINGS PROVISIONS. (a) ORDERS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS. — Al l orders, rules, and regulations issued by the Merit Systems Protection Board or the Special Counsel before the effective date of this Act shall continue in effect, according to their terms, until modified, terminated, super- seded, or repealed. (b) ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS. — No provision of this Act shall affect any administrative proceeding pending at the time such provisions take effect. Orders shall be issued in such proceedings, and appeals shall be taken therefrom, as if this Act had not been enacted. (c) SUITS AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS. —N O suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against the members of the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Special Counsel, or officers or employees thereof, in their official capacity or in relation to the discharge of their official duties, as in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, shall abate by reason of the enactment of this Act. Determinations with respect to any such suit, action, or other proceeding shall be made as if this Act had not been enacted. SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS; RESTRICTION RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS UNDER THE CIVIL SERVICE REFORM ACT OF 1978; TRANSFER OF FUNDS. 5 USC 5509 note. (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—T here are authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated— (1) for each of fiscal years 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994, such sums as necessary to carry out subchapter I of chapter 12 of title 5, United States Code (as amended by this Act); and (2) for each of fiscal years 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1992, such sums as necessary to carry out subchapter II of chapter 12 of title 5, United States Code (as amended by this Act). 5 USC 5509 note. (b) RESTRICTION RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS UNDER THE CiVIL SERVICE REFORM ACT OF 1978. —No funds may be appropriated to the Merit Systems Protection Board or the Office of Special Counsel pursuant to section 903 of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 5509 note). 5 USC 1211 note. (c) TRANSFER OF FuNDS.— The personnel, assets, liabilities, con- tracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropria- tions, authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, arising from, available or to be made available to the Special Counsel of the Merit Systems Protection Board are, subject to section 1531 of title 31, United States Code, transferred to the Special Counsel referred to in section 1211 of title 5, United States Code (as added by section 3(a) of this Act), for appropriate allocation. SEC. 9. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. (a)(1) Section 2303(c) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking "the provisions of section 1206" and inserting "applicable provisions of sections 1214 and 1221".