---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5355"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5355"
heading: "Effect on other statutes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5355"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 53 — Pay Rates and Systems"
  - "Subchapter V — Student-Employees"
---

# §5355. Effect on other statutes


This subchapter does not limit the [authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) conferred on the [Secretary](/usc/5/9901.md?p=2) of Veterans Affairs by chapter 73 of title 38.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 472; Pub. L. 102–54, § 13(b)(3), June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 274.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 1057. | Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 452, § 8, 61 Stat. 728. |
|  |  | June 17, 1957, Pub. L. 85–56, § 2201(19), 71 Stat. 159. |
|  |  | Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85–857, § 13(m), 72 Stat. 1265. |

The prohibition is restated in positive form.

Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–54 substituted “Secretary of Veterans Affairs” for “Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs”.