[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR591.402]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 591--ALLOWANCES AND DIFFERENTIALS--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart D--Separate Maintenance Allowance for Duty at Johnston Island
 
Sec. 591.402  Definitions.

    Adult, a term used in the Department of State Standardized 
Regulations (Government Civilians, Foreign Areas), means a family member 
who is 21 years of age or older.
    Family member means one or more of the following relatives of an 
employee who would normally reside with the employee except for 
circumstances warranting the granting of a separate maintenance 
allowance, but who does not receive from the Government an allowance 
similar to that granted to the employee and who is not deemed to be a 
family member of another employee for the purpose of determining the 
amount of a separate maintenance allowance or similar allowance:
    (1) Children who are unmarried and under 21 years of age or, 
regardless of age, are incapable of self-support, including natural 
children, step and adopted children, and those under legal guardianship 
or custody of the employee or the spouse when they are expected to be 
under such legal guardianship or custody at least until they reach 21 
years of age and when dependent upon and normally residing with the 
guardian;
    (2) Parents (including step and legally adoptive parents) of the 
employee or of the spouse when such parents are at least 51 percent 
dependent on the employee for support;
    (3) Sisters and brothers (including step or adoptive sisters and 
brothers) of the employee or of the spouse, when such sisters and 
brothers are at least 51 percent dependent on the employee for support, 
unmarried and under 21 years of age, or regardless of age, are incapable 
of self-support; or
    (4) Spouse, excluding a spouse independently entitled to and 
receiving a similar allowance.
    Johnston Island, also called Johnston Atoll, is a possession of the 
United States located 717 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.
    Separate maintenance allowance means an allowance to assist an 
employee assigned to Johnston Island who is compelled by reason of 
dangerous, notably unhealthful, or excessively adverse living conditions 
at Johnston Island, or for the convenience of the Government, to meet 
the additional expense of maintaining family members at a location other 
than Johnston Island.

[61 FR 27244, May 31, 1996]

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