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 286 Line officers. Consideration for promotion.

34 USC 307. Retention.

34 USC 307.

34 USC 410r.

Discharge.

34 USC 625h.

PUBLIC LAW 585-JUNE 15, 1956

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(3) amending section 206(d) by deleting the first sentence thereof and substituting therefor the following: "Women lieutenant commanders and lieutenants of the line of the Regular Navy shall become eligible for consideration by a selection board for promotion to the next higher grade in the fiscal year on June 30 of which they will have completed four years of service in their grades and women lieutenants (junior grade) of the line of the Regular Navy shall become so eligible after they will have completed such periods of service in grade as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. Women lieutenant commanders, lieutenants, and lieutenants (junior grade) shall retain their eligibility for consideration for selection for promotion until recommended for promotion in the approved report of a board on selection or until separated from the active list."; (4) amending section 206(i) by adding the following sentence at the end of the section: " I n addition, for a period of four years after the effective date of this amendatory Act, when determined by the Secretary of the Navy to be required for the needs of the service, there shall be furnished the appropriate selection board the number of those officers in the grade of lieutenant who will complete thirteen years of active commissioned service in the Regular Navy and Naval Reserve in the current fiscal year and who, if not selected for promotion to the next higher grade, may be recommended to be retained on the active list until June 30 of the fiscal year in which they complete fifteen years of active commissioned service in the Regular Navy and Naval Reserve."; (5) amending section 206(k) by changing the period at the end of the section to a semicolon and adding the following: "if such computation produces an indeterminate or inequitable number, the Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe a number which is equitable. In addition, for a period of four years after the effective date of this amendatory Act, when determined by the Secretary of the Navy to be required for the needs of the service, there shall be furnished the appropriate selection board considering women staff officers the number of those officers of the grade of lieutenant who will complete thirteen years of active commissioned service in the Regular Navy and Naval Reserve in the current fiscal year and who, if not selected for promotion to the next higher grade, may be recommended to be retained on the active list until June 30 of the fiscal year in which they complete fifteen years of active commissioned service in the Regular Navy and Naval Reserve."; (6) amending section 207(j) by— (A) inserting after the words "to the next higher grade" the words "and who have not been recommended for retention on the active list by a selection board pursuant to section 206(i) or section 206(k), "; and (B) adding at the end of the section the following sentence: "Women officers of the grade of lieutenant of the Regular Navy who have been recommended for retention on the active list by a selection board pursuant to section 206(i) or section 206(k) shall be honorably discharged on June 30 of the fiscal year in which they complete fifteen years of active commissioned service in the Regular Navy and Naval Reserve, with a lump sum payment computed as prescribed above."; and (7) amending section 213 by— (A) adding within the parentheses contained in subsection (a) after the words "Marine Corps" the words "or as otherwise provided in this section":

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