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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 312-MAY 14, 1942 Provisions for leave. Reemployment benefits. Promotions. Inactivedutystatus. National Defense Act, amendment. 39 Stat. 216. 10U. . C.§1393. Post, p. 328. Protection of the uniform. Soldiers' and Sail- ors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, amendment. 54 Stat. 1179. 50 U. S. C., app. §511. Definition of terms. Appropriation au- thorized. Post, p. 633. SEC. 15. Provisions for leave now applicable to the Army of the United States shall also apply to members of the corps. In the case of any person who has left or leaves a position in the employ of the United States, its Territories, or possessions, or the District of Colum- bia, to join the corps, such person shall, upon the termination of her period of service in the corps, be restored to such position or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay, such restoration to be without loss of seniority; she shall further be entitled to participate in all benefits pursuant to established rules and practices relating to employees on furlough or leave of absence. SEC. 16. Promotion in all grades of officers who have established or may hereafter establish their qualifications for such promotion shall be made under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary. SEC. 17. Under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, members of the corps may be relieved from active duty and called or recalled thereto at any time during their period of service. While on an inactive duty status such members shall not be entitled to pay or allowances in lieu of quarters or subsistence and shall not by reason solely of their appointments, oaths, commissions, enlistments, or status as such members, or any duties or functions performed, be held or deemed to be officers or employees of the United States, or persons holding any office of trust or profit, or discharging any official function under or in connection with any department of the Government of the United States. SEC. 18. The first sentence of section 125 of the National Defense Act, as amended, down to the first proviso thereof is further amended to read as follows: "It shall be unlawful for any person not an officer or enlisted man of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps to wear the duly prescribed uniform of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, or any distinctive part of such uniform or a uniform any part of which is similar to a distinctive part of the duly prescribed uni- form of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps; and it shall likewise be unlawful for any person not a member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps to wear its duly prescribed uniform or any distinctive part thereof, or a uniform any part of which is similar to a distinctive part thereof." SEC. 19. Section 101 (1) of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 (Public, Numbered 861, Seventy-sixth Congress), is hereby amended to read as follows: "The term 'persons in military service' and the term 'persons in the military service of the United States', as used in this Act shall include the following persons and no others. All members of the Army of the United States, the United States Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, and all officers of the Public Health Service detailed by proper authority for duty either with the Army or the Navy. The term 'military service', as used in this Act, shall signify Federal service on active duty with any branch of service heretofore referred to or mentioned as well as training or education under the supervision of the United States preliminary to induction into the military service. The terms 'active service' or active duty' shall include the period during which a person in military service is absent from duty on account of sickness, wounds, leave, or other lawful cause." SEC. 20. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. Approved, May 14, 1942. 282 [56 STAT.

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