The personnel necessary to carry out the purchase and sale operations of the foodstuffs as well as the field personnel appointed chargeable to the funds appropriated by §§ 55a—55h of this title shall be included in the Exempt Service pursuant to Act No. 345 of May 12, 1947, as amended, which created the Office of Personnel of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The other personnel shall remain in the Non-competitive Service. In the administration of this program there shall not apply the provisions of Act Aug. 4, 1947, No. 49, as amended, which created the Office of Transportation, nor the provisions of Act June 29, 1954, No. 96, as amended, which created the Procurement Service.
History —Dec. 9, 1966, No. 9, p. 46, § 5.