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[CITE: 5USC5926]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart D--Pay and Allowances
 
                         CHAPTER 59--ALLOWANCES
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--OVERSEAS DIFFERENTIALS AND ALLOWANCES
 
Sec. 5926. Compensatory time off at certain posts in foreign 
        areas
        
    (a) Under regulations prescribed pursuant to this subchapter, and 
notwithstanding subchapter V of chapter 55 of this title or any other 
law, the head of an agency may, on request of an employee serving in a 
foreign area--
        (1) at an isolated post performing functions required to be 
    maintained on a substantially continuous basis, grant the employee 
    compensatory time off for an equal amount of time spent in regularly 
    scheduled overtime work; or
        (2) at a post in a locality that customarily observes irregular 
    hours of work or where other special conditions are present, in 
    order to cope with those special circumstances, grant the employee 
    compensatory time off for an equal amount of time spent in regularly 
    scheduled overtime work for use during the pay period in which it is 
    earned.

Credit for compensatory time off earned under paragraph (2) shall not 
form the basis for any additional compensation.
    (b) Compensatory time earned under this section shall be for use 
only while the employee is assigned to the post where it is earned. Any 
such compensatory time not used at the time the employee is reassigned 
to another post shall be forfeited.

(Added Pub. L. 95-426, title IV, Sec. 411(a), Oct. 7, 1978, 92 Stat. 
980.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 22 section 1474.
