Executive Orders

Executive Order 12228--Allowances for personnel on foreign duty

Source: The provisions of Executive Order 12228 of July 24, 1980, appear at 45 FR 49903, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 271, unless otherwise noted.

By the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America by Sections 7 and 8 of the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act of 1959, as amended (20 U.S.C. 905-906), Section 235 of Title 38 of the United States Code, and Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, and in order to delegate authority with respect to allowances for Veterans Administration personnel and to update existing authorities, it is hereby ordered as follows:

1-101. Payment of the additional compensation authorized by Section 8(a)(2) of the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act of 1959, as amended, shall be governed by the regulations contained in Executive Order No. 10000, as amended, which govern the payment of additional compensation in foreign areas (referred to as foreign post differential), subject to the provisions of Section 8(b) of that Act (20 U.S.C. 906 (a)(2) and (b)).

1-102. The following functions vested in the President are delegated to the Secretary of State:

(a) That part of the functions in Section 7(a) of the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act which consists of the authority to prescribe regulations relating to quarters and quarters allowances (20 U.S.C. 905(a)).

(b) The authority in Section 8(a)(1) of the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act to prescribe regulations relating to cost of living allowances (20 U.S.C. 906(a)(1)).

(c) The following authority in Section 235 of Title 38 of the United States Code to prescribe rules and regulations:

(1) Section 235(2), except as that section pertains to an allowance similar to that provided for in Section 901(6) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081(6)).

(2) Section 235(3);

(3) Section 235(5);

(4) Section 235(6); and

(5) Section 235(7).

[Sec. 1-102 amended by Executive Order 12292 of Feb. 23, 1981, 46 FR 13967, 3 CFR, 1981 Comp., p. 134]

1-103. The following functions vested in the President by Section 235 of Title 38 of the United States Code are delegated to the Administrator of the Veterans Administration. The authority with respect to the allowances or benefits of paragraphs (1) and (4) of Section 235 which are similar to the benefits and allowances provided in the sections of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, designated in those paragraphs.

[Sec. 1-103 amended by Executive Order 12292 of Feb. 23, 1981, 46 FR 13967, 3 CFR, 1981 Comp., p. 134]

1-104. Executive Order No. 10853, as amended, is revoked. The rules and regulations which were prescribed by the Secretary of State or the Administrator of the Veterans Administration pursuant to Executive Order No. 10853, as amended, and which would be valid if issued pursuant to this Order, shall be deemed to have been issued under this Order.