Pub. L. 92-410, tit. I, sec. 303

“Sec. 303. (a) Each officer and member, if he has a current performance rating of ‘satisfactory’ or better, shall have his service step adjusted in the following manner: “(1) Each officer and member in service step 1,2, or 3 of salary class 1 shall be advanced in compensation successively to the next higher service step at the beginning of the first pay period immediately subsequent to the completion of fifty-two calendar weeks of active service in his service step. “(2) Each officer and member in service step 4 or 5 of salary class 1 shall be advanced in compensation successively to the next higher service step at the beginning of the first pay period immediately subsequent to the completion of one hundred and four calendar weeks of active service in his service step. “(3) Each officer and member in service step 6,7, or 8 of salary class I shall be advanced in compensation successively to the next higher service step at the beginning of the first pay period immediately sub-86 Stat. 638sequent to the completion of one hundred and fifty-six calendar weeks of active service in his service step. “(4) Each officer and member in salary classes 2 through 11 who has not attained the maximum service step rate of compensation for the rank or title in which he is placed shall be advanced in compensation successively to the next higher service step rate, for such rank or title at the beginning of the first pay period immediately subsequent to the completion of one hundred and four calendar weeks of active service in his service, step, except that in the case of an officer or member in service step 4, 5, or 6 of salary class 2 or 3, service step 4 or 5 of salary class 4, and service step 4 of salary class 5, such officer or member shall be advanced successively to the next higher service step at the beginning of the first pay period immediately subsequent to the completion of one hundred and fifty-six calendar weeks of active service in his service step. “(b) As used in this title, the term ‘calendar week of active service’ includes all periods of leave with pay, and periods of non pay status which do not cumulatively equal one basic workweek.”