PUBLIC LAW 101-509—NOV. 5, 1990 104 STAT. 1437 "(c) Authority under subsection (a) may be exercised with respect to positions paid under— "(1) a statutory pay system; or "(2) any other pay system established by or under Federal statute for civilian positions within the executive branch. "(d) Within the limitations applicable under the preceding provisions of this section, rates of pay established under this section may be revised from time to time by the President or by such agency as he may designate. The actions and revisions have the force and effect of statute. "(e) An increase in a rate of basic pay established under this section is not an equivalent increase in pay within the meaning of section 5335. "(f) The rate of basic pay established under this section and received by an individual immediately before a statutory increase, which becomes effective prior to, on, or after the date of enactment of the statute, in the pay schedule applicable to such individual of any pay system specified in subsection (c) of this section, shall be initially adjusted, effective on the effective date of the statutory increase, under conversion rules prescribed by the President or by such agency as the President may designate. "(g)(l) The benefit of any comparability payments under section 5304 shall be available to individuals receiving rates of basic pay established under this section to such extent as the President (or his designated agency) considers appropriate, subject to paragraph (2) and subsection (h). "(2) Payments under this subsection may not be made if, or to the extent that, when added to basic pay otherwise payable, such pay- ments would cause the total to exceed the rate of basic pay payable for level IV of the Executive Schedule. "(h) The rate of basic pay payable to an individual under this section may not, at any time, be less than the rate which would then be payable to such individual (taking comparability pa3anents under section 5304 into account) if this section had never been enacted. "§ 5306. Pay fixed by administrative action "(a) Notwithstanding sections 1341, 1342, and 1349-1351 and subchapter II of chapter 15 of title 31— "(1) the rates of pay of— "(A) employees in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the (lovernment of the United States (except employees whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives) and of the government of the District of Columbia, whose rates of pay are fixed by administrative action under law and are not otherwise adjusted under this subchapter; "(B) employees under the Architect of the Capitol, whose rates of pay are fixed under section 166b-3 of title 40, and the Superintendent of Garages, House office buildings; and "(C) persons employed by the county committees established under section 590h(b) of title 16; and "(2) and minimum or maximum rate of pay (other than a maximum rate equal to or greater than the maximum rate then currently being paid under the General Schedule as a result of a pay adjustment under section 5303 (or prior corresponding provision of law)), and any monetary limitation on or monetary
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