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Su b s i s t e n c e charges*

Additional h o s ' pitalizatioTu

Dependency d e terminationsc

Appropriation. Repeals. 10 USC 96.

24 USC 32-36. Exception. 58 Stat. 697. 42 USC 253.

63 Stat. 201. 10 USC 456-456-2 and note s. 34 USC 8 54f. Effective date.

PUBLIC LAW 5 7 0 - J U N E 7, 1956

he is dependent, the appropriation supporting the maintenance and operation of the medical facility furnishing the medical care shall be reimbursed at rates established by the Bureau of the Budget to reflect the average cost of providing such care. SEC. 302. Commissioned officers and warrant officers, active and retired, shall pay an amount equal to the portion of the charge established under section 103(c) of this Act that is attributable to subsistence when hospitalized in a medical facility of a uniformed service. Retired enlisted personnel, including members of the Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, shall not be charged for subsistence when hospitalized in a medical facility of a uniformed service. SEC. 303. Where a person who is covered under an insurance, medical service, or health plan or plans, as provided in this Act, requires hospitalization beyond the period of time provided under such plan or plans, if such hospitalization is authorized in medical facilities of a uniformed service, such person may be transferred to a medical facility of a uniformed service for the continuation of such hospitalization. Where movement to such medical facility is not feasible, the expenses for such additional hospitalization required by such person in a civilian facility are authorized to be paid, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of Defense after consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may prescribe. SEC. 304. All determinations made under this Act by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare with respect to dependency shall be conclusive for all purposes and shall not be subject to review in any court or by any accounting officer of the Government, except for cases involving fraud or gross negligence. Such determinations may at any time be reconsidered or modified on the basis of new evidence or for other good cause. SEC. 305. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. SEC. 306. The following laws and parts of laws are hereby repealed: (1) So much of the Act of July 5, 1884 (ch. 217, 23 Stat. 107), as is contained in the proviso under the heading "Medical Departments"; (2) The Act of May 10, 1943 (ch. 95, 57 Stat. 80), except section 4 of such Act, and except that part of section 5 which relates to persons outside the Naval Service mentioned in section 4 of such Act; (3) Section 326(b) of the Public Health Service Act, except as it relates to dependent members of families of ships' officers and members of crews of vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey; (4) Section 710(a) of the Act of July 1, 1944 (ch. 373, 58 Stat. 714), as amended; (5) Public Law 108, approved June 20, 1949, to the extent it authorizes hospital benefits for dependents of members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces; (6) Section 207 of the Act of June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1180). SEC. 307. This Act shall become effective six months after the date of its enactment. Approved June 7, 1956.

Public Law 570 Tune 7, 1956 IH. R. 4656]

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CHAPTER 375

AN ACT Relating to the Liimbee Indians of North Carolina.

Whereas many Indians now living in Robeson and adjoining counties are descendants of that once large and prosperous tribe which occupied the lands along the Lumbee River at the time of the earliest white settlements in that section; and

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