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PUBLIC LAW 615-AUG. 21, 1954

shall be deemed to have failed of selection within the meaning of section 509 of the Ofl5.cer Personnel Act of 1947. SEC. 5. To the extent necessary to give effect to sections 2, 3, and 4, the Secretary of the Army shall adjust the dates of rank in permanent grade of the officers described therein. For an officer entered on the Army promotion list in the grade of lieutenant colonel under this Act or promoted to that grade under section 4 hereof, the date specified as the adjusted date of rank shall be considered as the beginning of a period of service under a permanent appointment in the grade of lieutenant colonel for the purposes of section 510 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 897; 10 U.S.C. 559d). SEC. 6. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as changing existing laws pertaining to the appointment and commissioning of Regular Army officers in the Judge Advocate General's Corps or to the status of the Judge Advocate General's Corps as a special branch of the Army. SEC. 7. No officer of the Judge Advocate General's Corps shall suffer a reduction in grade by reason of the enactment of this Act. An officer who, on the day prior to the effective date hereof, is a "deferred officer" within the meaning of section 509 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 shall not, by reason of any provision of this Act, cease to be a "deferred officer". SEC. 8. The second paragraph of section 247 of the Universal Military Training and Service Act (formerly the Selective Service Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 643; 10 U.S.C. 65)) and the last sentence of section 308 of the Army Organization Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 270; 10 U.S.C. 61-1) are hereby repealed. SEC. 9. No retroactive pay or allowances shall accrue as a result of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 10. The Secretary of the Army, or such subordinate as he may designate, shall have authority to make all determinations necessary in the administration of this Act. SEC. 11. This Act shall become effective thirty days after the date of its enactment. Approved August 21, 1954.

10 USC S59c.

10 USC S59c. Repeals.

Effective date.

CHAPTER 784

Public Law 615 AN ACT

To extend certain civilian-internee and prisoner-of-war benefits under the War Claims Act of 1948, as amended, to civilian internees and American prisoners of war captured and held during the hostilities in Korea.

August 21, 1954 [H. R. 9390]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) section 5 temiei^ind* PHSof the War Claims Act of 1948, as amended (50 App. U.S.C. sec. oners of war. 2004), is hereby amended by adding the following new subsection uiesV*^" at the end thereof. 62 Stat. 1242. " (g)(1) As used in this subsection, the term 'civilian American citizens' means any person who, being then a citizen of the United States, was captured in Korea on or after June 25, 1950, by any hostile force with which the Armed Forces of the United States were actually engaged in armed conflict subsequent to such date and prior to the date of enactment of this subsection, or who went into hiding in Korea in order to avoid capture or internment by any such hostile force; except (A) a person who at any time voluntarily, knowingly, and without duress, gave aid to or collaborated with or in any manner served any such hostile force, or (B) a regularly appointed, enrolled, enlisted, or inducted member of the Armed Forces of the United States.

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