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such service and (B) any other periods of active service, not to exceed an aggregate of five years, performed as a member of such forces, but shall not include any such service for which credit is allowed for the purposes of retirement or retired pay under any other provision of law, including Title III of the Army and Air Force Vitalization and Retirement Equalization Act of 1948'. " (d)(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3(a) of the Act of February 28, 1948— " (A) subsections (b) and (c) of section 4, and the last sentence in section 9 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, shall apply to Members of Congress; and " (B) subsections (c), (d), (e), (g), and (h) of section 12 of such Act shall apply in the case of Members of Congress dying on or after the date of enactment of this section. Such subsections shall apply to the widower of any such Member of Congress to the same extent and in the same manner as to the widow of any such Member of Congress, if such widower shall have been married to such Member for at least two years immediately preceding her death or is the father of issue by such marriage. Such subsection (c) shall also apply in the case of any Member of Congress who died on or after November 4, 1952, and prior to the date of enactment of this subsection, except that in such case no annuity shall be payable for any period prior to such date of enactment and no annuity shall be payable unless the amount of any lump sum death benefit heretofore paid under the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, is redeposited in the civil-service retirement and disability fund. "(2) Section 12(c) of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, is amended by striking out 'computed as provided in section 4(a) hereof with respect to such officer or employee' in paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting in lieu thereof 'computed as provided in section 4(a), section 4(g), or section 3A hereof, as the case may be, with respect to such officer or employee as if he had retired under the disability provisions of this Act'; and by striking out 'section 1, 2, or 6' in paragraphs (2) and (3) and inserting in lieu thereof 'section 1,2,3A, or 6'. " (e) Section 13 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, is amended by inserting before the period at the end of the first sentence of the third paragraph thereof a comma and the following: 'except that the annuity of an elected officer of the Senate or House of Representatives and any annuity granted under the provisions of section 3A shall commence on the day following the day on which salary shall cease, provided the person entitled to such annuity meets the age and service requirements for annuity at that time'." SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided, the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the first day of the month following the date of its enactment. Approved March 6, 1954. Public Law 304

62 Stat. 1087. 10 USC 1 0 3610361. 62 Stat. 49. 5 USC 693-1 note. 5 USC 698, 736b. W i d o w or wi*' OTwer.

5 USC 724.

5 USC 724.

5 USC 698; ante, p. 22.

5 USC 691, 715, 693-1, 710-714. e omme nee me nt. 5 USC 718.

Ante, p. 22.

Effective date.

CHAPTER 60

AN ACT Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes.

March 6, 1954 [H. R. 7996]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following me^n^aVAppr'^^lal sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise " ° " ^'=*' 1^54.

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