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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 298-NOV. 11, 1943 and Sailors' Civil Relief Act, as amended, the National Service Life Insurance Act, as amended, travel allowances, including per diem allowances for travel without regard to repeated travel between two or more places in the same vicinity, allowances for uniforms, exemption of certain pay from Federal income taxa- tion, and other benefits, privileges and exceptions under the Inter- nal Revenue laws; (2) the term "limited military benefits" means full military benefits, except veterans' compensation and pensions and other veterans' benefits, and eligibility under the National Service Life Insurance Act, as amended. (b) Beginning with the date of enactment of this Act, commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, regular and reserve (including their surviving beneficiaries)- (1) in time of war, shall be entitled to limited military benefits with respect to all active service in the Public Health Service; (2) while such officers are detailed for duty with the Army, Navy, or Coast Guard, shall be entitled to full military benefits with respect to such duty; (3) while such officers are serving outside the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska in time of war, shall be entitled to full military benefits with respect to such service. (c) In time of war, the President may by Executive order declare the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service a part of the military forces of the United States and provide the extent to which it shall be subject to the Articles of War and the Articles for the Government of the Navy. Upon the issuance of such an Executive order, all commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, regular and reserve (including their surviving beneficiaries), shall be entitled to full military benefits with respect to active service rendered while the Public Health Service is a part of the military forces of the United States. SEo. 9. Commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, regular and reserve (including their surviving beneficiaries), shall be entitled to receive the same benefits for injury or death in the performance of their duties as civil officers and employees of the United States under the United States Employees' Compensation Act of September 7, 1916, as amended: Provided, That any such officer or beneficiary of such officer eligible to receive any benefit authorized by this section who is also eligible to receive any payment or benefit (except the proceeds of any insurance policy) under any provision of law other than such Act of September 7, 1916, as amended, on account of the same injury or death, shall elect which benefit he shall receive. SEc. 10. The surviving beneficiaries of any commissioned officer of the Public Health Service, regular or reserve, who, since December 7, 1941, and prior to the enactment of this Act, has lost his life while on active duty in the Public Health Service or while detailed to the Army, Navy, or Coast Guard, shall receive six months' pay as pro- vided in the Act of June 4, 1920, as amended (U. S. C., 1940 edition, sup. II, title 34, sec. 943), and, unless entitled to compensation under the laws administered by the Veterans' Administration, shall receive the benefits provided under Section 9 of this Act. SEa. 11 . This Act may be cited as the "Public Health Service Act of 1943". For the purpose of any reorganization under section 1 of this Act the Federal Security Administrator, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, is hereby authorized to make such transfer of funds between appropriations as may be necessary for the continuance of transferred futions. Approved November 11, 1943. 589 54 Stat. 1178, 1008. 50U.S.C.app. 1§ 501-585; Supp. II, §501 tseq.;38U.S.C. §S 801-818; Supp. II, S 801 et seg. Ante, p. 64. " Limited military benefits." 54 Stat. 1008 . 38U.S.C.i§801- 818; Supp. II, § 801 et seq. Ante, p. 64. Commissioned offi- cers. Benefits. Operation of PHB in time of war. 41 Stat. 787; 12 Stat. 600. 10U. . C.. 1471 ct seq.; Supp. II, § 1473 t sq.; 34U.S. C. 12 0. Benefits under U. S. Employees' Compen- sation Act. 39 Stat. 742. 5 U. S. C.1 751-791, 793; Supp. I, 793. Election of benefit. surviving beneficl- aries of certain com- missioned officers. Benefits. 41 Stat. 824 . Short title. Transfer o fm-da.

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