Volume 60
Public Law 79–682
To amend further the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as amended.
Approved July 27, 1946
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend further the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 17 of the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as
Withholding or recovery of moneys.
amended, is further amended by changing the final period to a semicolon and adding thereto the following: “nor shall there be any withholding or recovery of any moneys mentioned in this Act on account of any certification or payment made by any former officer or employee of the United States in the discharge of his official duties unless the head of the department or agency on behalf of which the certification or payment was made certifies to the Civil Service Commission that such certification or payment involved fraud on the part of such officer or employee”.
Approved July 27, 1946.