Title 5 — Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-73not60

§5738 Regulations

Title 5 › Part III— EMPLOYEES › Subpart D— Pay and Allowances › Chapter 57— TRAVEL, TRANSPORTATION, AND SUBSISTENCE › Subchapter II— TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES; NEW APPOINTEES, STUDENT TRAINEES, AND TRANSFERRED EMPLOYEES › § 5738

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The General Services Administrator must write the rules needed to run this subchapter, except where the subchapter itself already says something else. The rules must let an agency head or their designee lift any limit in the subchapter or its rules when an employee moving to or from a remote or isolated location would suffer hardship. Any such waiver applies even if other parts of the subchapter would seem to block it. When making rules for section 5724b, the General Services Administrator must consult the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of Defense must write the rules needed to carry out section 5735.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §5738

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(a)(1)Except as specifically provided in this subchapter, the Administrator of General Services shall prescribe regulations necessary for the administration of this subchapter.

(2)The Administrator of General Services shall include in the regulations authority for the head of an agency or his designee to waive any limitation of this subchapter or in any implementing regulation for any employee relocating to or from a remote or isolated location who would suffer hardship if the limitation were not waived. A waiver of a limitation under authority provided in the regulations pursuant to this paragraph shall be effective notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter.

(b)In prescribing regulations for the implementation of section 5724b of this title, the Administrator of General Services shall consult with the Secretary of the Treasury.

(c)The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations necessary for the implementation of section 5735 of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Sept. 23, 1996, see section 1725(a) of Pub. L. 104–201, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1996 Amendment note under section 5722 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

5 U.S.C. § 5738

Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60