---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5338"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5338"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5338"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 53 — Pay Rates and Systems"
  - "Subchapter III — General Schedule Pay Rates"
---

# §5338. Regulations


The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management may prescribe regulations necessary for the [administration](/usc/5/9801.md?p=1) of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 470; Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(a)(2), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1224.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

The section is added on authority of former sections 1072 and 1072a, which are carried into section 5115.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–454 substituted “Office of Personnel Management” for “Civil Service Commission”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 95–454 effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.