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PUBLIC LAW 379-MAY 29, 1954

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(b) All other matters relating to the functions and duties of the boards, including the number of members required to constitute a quorum, shall be prescribed by the Secretary. E L I G I B I L I T Y FOR PROMOTION

SEC. 9. (a) Each permanent warrant officer of the regular service shall be considered by a selection board as prescribed by the Secretary sufficiently in advance of the date on which he completes the service in permanent warrant officer grade in the regular service prescribed in this section (including service credited in that permanent warrant officer grade in the regular service under section 4(b) or 5 (b) of this Act and service performed after the effective date of this Act while he holds that permanent warrant officer grade in the regular service) so that he may, subject to the provisions of this Act, be promoted to the next higher permanent warrant officer grade in the regular service as of the day after the date on which he completes the following service in grade— (1) warrant officer, W - 1, three years; (2) chief warrant officer, W-2, six years; and (3) chief warrant officer, W - 3, six years. (b) A permanent warrant officer of the regular service who is considered by a selection board for promotion, but who fails to be selected for promotion to the next higher permanent grade in the regular service, shall be considered for promotion by each later selection board which considers permanent warrant officers in his grade until he is retired, separated, or selected for promotion to that grade. SELECTION FOR PROMOTION

SEC. 10. (a) The Secretary shall furnish each selection board with the names of all permanent warrant officers of the regular service, in order of seniority in their permanent warrant officer grade, who are eligible under subsections (a) and (b) of section 9 of this Act, for consideration by that selection board for promotion to the next higher permanent warrant officer grade in the regular service— (1) from the list of warrant officers, W - 1, which the Secretary has submitted to it, each selection board shall select those warrant officers, W - 1, whom the selection board considers fully qualified for promotion to the grade of chief warrant officer, AV-2, and shall also report the names of those warrant officers, W - 1, whom it recommends for termination of their appointment under section 6 of this Act; and (2) from the list of chief warrant officers, W-2, and chief warrant officers, W - 3, which the Secretary has submitted to it, each selection board shall select for promotion to chief warrant officer, W - 3, and chief warrant officer, W-4, respectively, those officers whom it considers best qualified for promotion, in numbers not exceeding the number prescribed by the Secretary. The number prescribed by the Secretary for each of these chief warrant officer grades shall be equal to not less than eighty per centum of the number of warrant officers who for the first time are being considered for promotion to each of those chief warrant officer grades under paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 9(a) of this Act. Under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, the selection board shall also report the names of those chief warrant officers among those eligible for consideration whose reports and records in its opinion establish their unfitness or vinsatisfactory

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