---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 1533"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "1533"
heading: "Transfers of appropriations for salaries and expenses to carry out national defense responsibilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/1533"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — The Budget Process"
  - "Chapter 15 — Appropriation Accounting"
  - "Subchapter III — Transfers and Reimbursements"
---

# §1533. Transfers of appropriations for salaries and expenses to carry out national defense responsibilities


An appropriation of an executive [agency](/usc/31/1101.md?p=1) for salaries and expenses is available to carry out national defense responsibilities assigned to the [agency](/usc/31/1101.md?p=1) under law. A transfer necessary to carry out this section may be made between [appropriations](/usc/31/1101.md?p=2) or allocations within the executive [agency](/usc/31/1101.md?p=1). An allocation may not be made to an executive [agency](/usc/31/1101.md?p=1) that can carry out with its regular personnel a defense activity assigned to it by using the authority of this section to re­align its regular programs.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 933.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 1533 | 31:697. | June 2, 1951, ch. 121, ch. XI(proviso immediately before heading “Independent Offices”), 65 Stat. 61. |

The words “executive agency” are substituted for “department, agency, or corporation, in the executive branch of the Government” because of section 102 of the revised title. The words “authority of this section” are substituted for “foregoing authority” for clarity.