---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5553"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5553"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5553"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 55 — Pay Administration"
  - "Subchapter VI — Payment for Accumulated and Accrued Leave"
---

# §5553. 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

(Added Pub. L. 102–378, § 2(45)(A), Oct. 2, 1992, 106 Stat. 1353.)