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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 373-JULY 1, 1944 officer or employee of the Service, or of any member of the National Advisory Health Council or the National Advisory Cancer Council, in office or employed at the time of its enactment. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, existing positions, divisions, committees, and procedures in the Service shall continue unless and until abolished, changed, or transferred pursuant to authority granted in this Act. EXISTING REGULATIONS, AND SO FORTH SEC. 602. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, existing rules, regulations of or applicable to the Service, and Executive orders, shall remain in effect until repealed, or until modified or superseded by regulations made in accordance with the provisions of this Act. FUNDS, APPROPRIATIONS, AND PROPERTY SEC. 603. All appropriations, allocations, and other funds, and all properties available for use by the Public Health Service or any division or unit thereof shall continue to be available to the Service. APPROPRIATIONS FOR EMERGENCY HEALTH AND SANITATION ACTIVITIES SEC. 604. For each fiscal year during the continuance of the pres- ent war and during any period of demobilization after the war, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sum as may be necessary to enable the Surgeon General, either directly or through State health authorities, to conduct health and sanitation activities in areas adjoin- ing military or naval reservations within or without the United States, in areas where there are concentrations of military or naval forces, in Government and private industrial plants engaged in defense work, and in areas adjoining such industrial plants. EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION SEC. 605. (a) Section 7 of the Act of September 7, 1916, entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for 39 stat. ?7. other purposes", as amended (U. S . C., 1940 edition, title 5, sec. 757), is amended by changing the period at the end thereof to a colon and Election of benefits. adding the following: "Provided, That whenever any person is entitled to receive any benefits under this Act by reason of his injury, i*e. or by reason of the death of an employee, as defined in section 40, and is also entitled to receive from the United States any payments or benefits (other than the proceeds of any insurance policy), by reason of such injury or death under any other Act of Congress, because of service by him (or in the case of death, by the deceased) as an employee, as so defined, such person shall elect which benefits he shall receive. Such election shall be made within one year after the injury or death, or such further time as the Commission may for good cause allow, and when made shall be irrevocable unless otherwise provided by law." (b) The definition of the term "employee" in section 40 of such 39 Stat. 760. Act of September 7, 1916, as amended (U. S . C., 1940 edition, title 5, sec. 790), is amended to read as follows: "Employee." "The term 'employee' includes all civil employees of the United States and of the Panama Railroad Company commissioned officers of the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, officers in the Reserve of the Public Health Service on active duty, and all persons, other than independent contractors and their employees, employed on [58 STAT.

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