(a) When any agency or department of this State or any political subdivision acts as a receiving agency, employees of the sending agency who are assigned under authority of this chapter may (1) be given appointments in the receiving agency covering the periods of such assignments, with compensation to be paid from receiving agency funds or may be given appointments without compensation, or (2) may, with the agreement of the sending agency, be considered to be on detail to the receiving agency with their compensation to be paid by the sending agency.

(b) Appointments of persons so assigned may be made without regard to the laws or regulations governing the selection of employees of the receiving agency.

(c) Except for those benefits authorized by subsection (d) of this section, employees who are detailed to a receiving agency of this State or any political subdivision thereof shall not by virtue of such detail be considered to be employees of the receiving agency, nor shall they be paid a salary or wage by the receiving agency during the period of their detail. The supervision of the duties of such employees during the period of detail shall be determined by agreement between the sending agency and the receiving agency.

(d) Any employee of a sending agency not of this State or any political subdivision thereof, which employee is assigned to a receiving agency in this State, who suffers disability or death as a result of personal injury arising out of and in the course of such assignment, or sustained in the performance of duties in connection therewith, shall be treated for the purpose of receiving agency’s employee compensation program as an employee who has sustained such injury in the performance of his duties with the receiving agency but any benefits so received as an employee of the receiving agency shall be reduced to the extent he is entitled to and elects to receive similar benefits as an employee under the sending agency’s employee compensation program.