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[CITE: 5USC7135]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
           Subpart F--Labor-Management and Employee Relations
 
                 CHAPTER 71--LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
 
           SUBCHAPTER IV--ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 7135. Continuation of existing laws, recognitions, 
        agreements, and procedures
        
    (a) Nothing contained in this chapter shall preclude--
        (1) the renewal or continuation of an exclusive recognition, 
    certification of an exclusive representative, or a lawful agreement 
    between an agency and an exclusive representative of its employees, 
    which is entered into before the effective date of this chapter; or
        (2) the renewal, continuation, or initial according of 
    recognition for units of management officials or supervisors 
    represented by labor organizations which historically or 
    traditionally represent management officials or supervisors in 
    private industry and which hold exclusive recognition for units of 
    such officials or supervisors in any agency on the effective date of 
    this chapter.

    (b) Policies, regulations, and procedures established under and 
decisions issued under Executive Orders 11491, 11616, 11636, 11787, and 
11838, or under any other Executive order, as in effect on the effective 
date of this chapter, shall remain in full force and effect until 
revised or revoked by the President, or unless superseded by specific 
provisions of this chapter or by regulations or decisions issued 
pursuant to this chapter.

(Added Pub. L. 95-454, title VII, Sec. 701, Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 
1215.)

                       References in Text

    For the effective date of this chapter, referred to in text, as 90 
days after the date of the enactment of Pub. L. 95-454, which was 
approved Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95-454, set out as an 
Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 1101 of this title.
    Executive Orders 11491, 11616, 11636, and 11838, referred to in 
subsec. (b), are set out as notes under section 7101 of this title.
    Executive Order 11787, referred to in subsec. (b), which was set out 
as a note under section 7701 of this title, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 
12553, Feb. 25, 1986, 51 F.R. 7237.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7112 of this title.
