Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73
§280c Employment of personnel with specialized skills
Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 7— - INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VII— - SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION › § 280c
Summary
Secretary may temporarily assign federal workers who have special scientific, technical, or professional skills to work for or with the Commission if the agency that employs them agrees. These assignments use the rules in the Act of May 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 442) for detailing officers to foreign governments, except the Secretary has the power that Act gives the President for this purpose.
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Title 22, §280c
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The Secretary is authorized, when the Commission is desirous of obtaining the services of a person having special scientific or other technical or professional qualifications, from time to time to detail, or authorize the detail of, for temporary service to or in cooperation with the Commission, any person in the employ or service of the Government of the United States who has such qualifications, with the approval of the Government agency in which such person is employed or serving, under the same conditions as those governing the detail of officers and employees of the United States Government to the government of another country in accordance with the provisions of the Act of May 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 442), as amended, except that the authority vested in the President under that Act shall be vested in the Secretary for the purpose of carrying out this section.
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Act of
May 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 442), as amended, referred to in text, is act
May 25, 1938, ch. 277, 52 Stat. 442, which was classified to section 118e of former title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees, and was repealed by act Jan. 26, 1948, ch. 36, § 1004(a), 62 Stat. 13. section 1004(c) of act Jan. 26, 1948, provided that any reference to provisions of act
May 25, 1938 shall be construed to be applicable to the appropriate provisions of titles III and IX of act Jan. 26, 1948 [see section 1451 et seq., 1478 and 1479 of this title].
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22 U.S.C. § 280c
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
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