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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CHS. 21, 22 -MAR. 23, 24, 1943 1943" in each place where it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "July 1, 1944". SEC. 2 . The first sentence of section 2 (a) of such Act as amended, is amended by striking out "1943" and inserting in lieu thereof "1944". Approved March 23, 1943. [CHAPTER 22] AN ACT To amend title I of Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, March 20, 1933, and the Veterans Regulations to provide for rehabilitation of disabled veterans, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Azerica in Congress assembled, That section 1, title I, Public, Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, approved March 20, 1933, be amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection known as subsection (f) and to read as follows: "(f) Any person who served in the active military or naval forces on or after December 7, 1941, and prior to the termination of hostili- ties in the present war shall be entitled to vocational rehabilitation, subject to the provisions and limitations of Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, part VII." SEC. 2 . Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new part to be known as part VII and to provide as follows: "PART VII "1. Any person who served in the active military or naval service at any time after December 6, 1941, and prior to the termination of the present war, who is honorably discharged therefrom, and who has a disability incurred in or aggravated by such service for which pension is payable under laws administered by the Veterans' Adminis- tration, or would be but for receipt of retirement pay, and is in need of vocational rehabilitation to overcome the handicap of such disability, shall be entitled to such vocational rehabilitation as may be prescribed by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to fit him for employment consistent with the degree of disablement: Provided, That no course of training in excess of a period of four years shall be approved nor shall any training under this parbe e afforded beyond six years after the termination of the present war. "2.'The Administrator shall have the power and duty to prescribe and provide suitable training to persons included in paragraph I, and for such purposes may employ such additional personnel and experts as are deemed necessary, and may utilize and extend existing Veterans' Administration facilities and utilize those of any other governmental agency as well as those maintained by joint Federal and State contribution; and, in addition, he may, by agreement or contract with public or private institutions or establishments, provide for such additional training facilities as may be suitable and necessary to accomplish the purposes of this part. "3. While pursuing training prescribed herein, and for two months after his or her employability is determined, each veteran, if entitled to pension in an amount less than the amount payable in accordance with the compensation rates for total and temporary disability, including additional amounts for wife, husband, child, or children and dependent parents, provided by section 202, World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended (U. S . C., title 38, sec. 475), shall be paid increased pension which when added to the amount of pension to 43 49 Stat. 1187; M6 Stat. 364 . 12 U. S. C., SupP. II, §1703 (a). Post, p. 571. March 24, 1943 [S. 786] [Public Law 16] Rehabilitation of veterans disabled in present war. 48 Stat. 8. 38U.S.C.J701. Post, p. 554 . Infra. 38U.S.C.note foll. § 724; Supp. II, note foll. § 726. Eligibility. Training period Provision of suitable training. Personnel and facili- ties. Pension rates dur- ing training. 43 Stat. 618.

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