---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 735"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "735"
heading: "Relationship to other laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/735"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — General"
  - "Chapter 7 — Government Accountability Office"
  - "Subchapter III — Personnel"
---

# §735. Relationship to other laws

- (a) Except as provided in [section 733(c) of this title](/usc/31/733.md?p=c), this subchapter and subchapter IV of this chapter do not affect sections [702(b)](/usc/31/702.md?p=b), [703](/usc/31/703.md), [731(c)](/usc/31/731.md?p=c) and (e), 772, 775(a) and (d) of this title.
- (b) Except as specifically provided in this subchapter and subchapter IV of this chapter, those subchapters do not change the application of a law applicable to officers and employees of the Government Accountability Office.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 899; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), July 7, 2004, 118 Stat. 814; Pub. L. 110–323, § 9(b)(3), Sept. 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 3548.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 735(a) | 31:52–6(a). | Feb. 15, 1980, Pub. L. 96–191, § 7, 94 Stat. 33. |
| 735(b) | 31:52–6(b). |  |

In subsection (a), the words “repealing, amending, or otherwise” are omitted as surplus.

In subsection (b), the words “repeal . . . or limit” are omitted as surplus. The words “officers and” are added for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–323 substituted “731(c) and (e),” for “731(c)–(e),”.

2004—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office”.