salary rates fixed by administrative action

salary rates fixed by administrative action Sec. 211. (a) The rates of basic pay of United States attorneys and assistant United States attorneys whose annual salaries are fixed pursuant to section 548 of title 28, United States Code, shall be increased, effective on the effective date of section 202 of this title, by amounts equal, as nearly as may be practicable, to the increases provided by section 202(a) of this title for corresponding rates of basic pay. (b) Notwithstanding section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 665), the rates of pay of officers and employees of the Federal Government and of the municipal government of the District of Columbia whose rates of pay are fixed by administrative action pursuant to law and are not otherwise increased by this title are hereby authorized to be increased, effective on the effective date of section 202 of this title, by amounts not to exceed the increases provided by this title for corresponding rates of pay in the appropriate schedule or scale of pay. (c) Nothing contained in this section shall be held or considered to authorize any increase in the rates of pay of officers and employees whose rates of pay are fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates or practices. (d) Nothing contained in this section shall affect the authority contained in any law pursuant to which rates of pay may be fixed by administrative action.