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Civil Service. P o s t a l fi e l d service employee s.

Reenlistments.

Disability.

PUBLIC LAW 779~SEPT. 3, 1954

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Statutes (5 U.S.C. sec. 99), or in any other provision of Federal law imposing restrictions, requirements, or penalties in relation to the employment of persons, the performance of services, or the payment or receipt of compensation in connection with any claim proceeding, or matter involving the United States, shall apply to such persons solely by reason of their appointment to and membership on such committee.". SEC. 13. (a) Section 1 of the Act approved July 31, 1946, chapter 714, 60 Stat. 749, as amended by the Act approved June 28, 1948, ch. 694, 62 Stat. 1068, and the Act approved April 29, 1950, ch. 136, section 1, 64 Stat. 93 (5 U.S.C. sec. 645a), is amended by striking out, after "determined by the" in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of such section, the reference "Classification Act of 1923, as amended, an Act entitled 'An Act to adjust the compensation of certain employees in the Customs Service', approved May 29, 1928, as amended, or the second paragraph of section 24 of the Immigration Act of 1917, as amended", and in lieu thereof inserting "Classification Act of 1949,as amended", so that such section will read as follows: "That (a) any person— "(1) whose name appeared on any list of eligibles either (A) at any time between May 1, 1940, and March 16, 1942, with respect to a position the rate of compensation of which is determined by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, or (B) at any time between May 1, 1940, and October 23, 1943, with respect to a position in the field service of the Post Office Department, or (C) at any time between May 1, 1940, and the effective date of this Act, with respect to positions of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police or of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and officers and members of the United States Park Police and the White House Police; and "(2) who, pursuant to Executive Order Numbered 9538, dated April 13, 1945, or regulations of the Civil Service Commission coverinij similar situations in which an eligible lost opportunity for probational appointment because of military service during World War II, was certified for probational appointment to such position, and, subsequently, was given such appointment, "shall, for the purpose of (A) determining his rate of compensation and (B) his seniority rights in the postal field service, be held to have been appointed to such position as of the earliest date on which an eligible standing lower on the same list of eligibles received a probational appointment therefrom: Provided, That the grade, time in grade, and rate of compensation of any person so appointed to a position in the postal field service shall, at the time this Act first applies to such person, be not less than the grade, time in grade, and rate of compensation of the lower eligible (whether a substitute or regular employee) receiving the highest automatic rate of compensation at such time, but such adjustment in grade, time in grade, and rate of compensation shall not affect the status of such person as a substitute or regular employee: Provided, however, That no regular employee in the postal field service shall be reduced to substitute status by reason of the enactment of this Act. "(b) No person shall be entitled to the benefits of this section who has reenlisted after June 1, 1945, in the Regular Military Establishment or after February 1, 1945, in the Regular Naval Establishment. "(c) Any person within the terms of this section, who, due to a disability incurred because of military service in World War II, is unable to perform the duties of the position designated by him at the time of taking the examination for appointment thereto, may upon written request at any time have his name entered upon any list of eligibles for any position for which a like examination is required

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