Volume 67 · 229
Public Law 83–161
To amend section 303 of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 (42 Stat. 23).
Approved July 28, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 303 of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 (42 Stat. 23).
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 303 of the Budget, and Accounting Act, 1921, approved June 10, 1921, is
amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
“Any Comptroller General who shall be so retired for age after
Comptroller General.
Retirement annuity.
serving at least ten years in his office, or who completes his term, shall receive an annuity during the remainder of his life equal to the salary payable for his office at the time of retirement or completion of term, except that the annuity of any Comptroller General who completes his term shall be reduced by one-fourth of 1 per centum for each full month he is under the age of sixty-five at such completion. Any Comptroller General who becomes permanently disabled from performing his duties shall be retired and snail receive an annuity during the remainder of his life equal to the salary payable for his office at the time of retirement if he has served at least ten years therein or equal to one-half of such salary if he has served less than ten years. The annuities provided for herein shall be paid by the General Accounting Office. No person receiving benefits under this Act shall receive any other retirement benefits under any other law of the United States.”
Approved July 28, 1953.