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Executive Order 10552--Delegating to the Office of Personnel Management the authority of the President to promulgate regulations under which certain Government employees may be prevented or relieved from working by administrative order

Source: The provisions of Executive Order 10552 of Aug. 10, 1954, appear at 19 FR 5079, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 201, unless otherwise noted.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, 65 Stat. 713, it is declared that the Office of Personnel Management be, and it is hereby, designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the authority vested in the President by the joint resolution of June 29, 1938, 52 Stat. 1246, as amended by the act of June 11, 1954, 68 Stat. 249 (5 U.S.C. 86a), to promulgate regulations under which certain employees of the Government may be prevented or relieved from working by administrative order.

[EO 10552 amended by EO 12107 of Dec. 28, 1978, 44 FR 1055, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 264]


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