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 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 828 -DEC. 24, 1942 entitled to have such allotments for dependents or insurance pre- miums as he previously may have executed continued for a period of twelve months from date of commencement of absence, notwithstand- ing that the period for which the allotments had been executed may have expired during such twelve months' period, and the proper dis- bursing officer shall so continue the allotments during such absence: Provided, That in the absence of a previously executed allotment or where the allotments made are not sufficient for reasonable support of dependents or payment of insurance premiums, the head of the department concerned may direct that allotments not exceeding the amount of pay and allowances the absent person would be entitled to allot under regulations of the department concerned, shall be paid by the appropriate disbursing officer to an insurer or to such depend- ents as have been designated in official records or to such persons as may be determined to be dependent by the head of the department, or person designated by him: And provided further, That any pre- mium paid by the Government subsequent to the declared date of death and unearned on insurance issued on the life of a person shall revert to the appropriation of the department concerned." Section 4, strike out the second sentence and substitute the follow- ing: "Except as provided in section 6 of this Act, payment of allot- ments may not continue beyond the twelve months' period following the officially reported date of commencement of absence." Section 5, strike out the entire section and substitute the following: "When the twelve months' period from date of commencement of absence is about to expire in any case of a person missing or missing in action and no official report of death or of being a prisoner or of being interned has been received, the head of the department con- cerned shall cause a full review of the case to be made. Following such review and when the twelve months' absence shall have expired, or following any subsequent review of the case which shall be made whenever warranted by information received or other circumstances, the head of the department concerned is authorized to direct the con- tinuance of the person's missing status, if the person may reasonably be presumed to be living, or is authorized to make a finding of death. When a finding of death is made it shall inclule the date upon which death shall be presumed to have occurred for the purposes of termi- nation of crediting pay and allowances, settlenments of accounts, and payments of death gratuities and such date shall be the day following the day of expiration of an absence of twelve months, or in cases in which the missing status shall have been continued as hereinbefore authorized, a day to be determined by the head of the department." Section 6, add at the end thereof the following sentence: "When a person missing or missing in action is continued in a missing status under section 5 of this Act, such person shall continue to be entitled to have pay and allowances credited as provided in section 2 of this Act and payments of allotments, as provided in section 3 of this Act, are authorized to be continued, increased, or initiated." Section 15, in lines 3 and 4, strike out the words "as proclaimed by the President, and for twelve months thereafter" and substitute therefor the words "and for twelve months thereafter, or until such earlier time as the Congress by concurrent resolution or the President by proclamation may designate." SEC. 2 . This Act shall be effective in all respects as provided in section 15 of the Act of March 7, 1942 (Public Law 490, Seventy- seventh Congress). Approved, December 24, 1942. Provisos. Absence of previ- ously executed allot- ment, etc. Reversion of un- earned premiums. Ante, p. 145.. Termination of pay- ments. Ante, p. 146 . Review before ex- piration of period. Continuance of missing status or nd- ing of death. Presumption of dat of death. A*s, p. 145 Persons continue in mising statu. Aute, p. 147. Duration. Effective dte. Ante, p. 147. 1093 56 STAT.]

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