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PUBLIC LAW 634-JUNE 29, 1956

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g ^ 450), to be otherwise legally vested with the care of the eligible person. (9) The term "program of education" means any curriculum or any combination of unit courses or subjects pursued at an educational institution which is generally accepted as necessary to fulfill the requirements for the attainment of a predetermined and identified educational, professional, or vocational objective. (10) The term "educational institution" means any public or private secondary school, vocational school, business school, junior college, teachers- college, college, normal school, professional school, university, or scientific or technical institution, or any other institution if it furnishes education at the secondary school level or above. (11) The term "State" means each of the several States, Territories, and possessions of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Bico. (12) The term "Administrator" means the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. (13) The term "special restorative training" means training furnished under title IV. (b) If an eligible person has attained his majority and is under no known legal disability, all references in this Act to "parent or guardian" shall refer to the eligible person himself. (c) Any provision of this Act which requires any action to be taken by or with respect to the parent or guardian of an eligible person who has not attained his majority, or who, having attained his majority, is under a legal disability, shall not apply when the Administrator determines that its application would not be in the best interest of the eligible person, would result in undue delay, or would not be administratively feasible. In such a case the Administrator, where necessary to protect the interest of the eligible person, may designate some other person (who may be the eligible person himself) as the person by or with respect to whom the action so required should be taken. TITLE II—ELIGIBILITY AND ENTITLEMENT ELIGIBILITY AND ENTITLEMENT GENERALLY

SEC. 201. Each eligible person shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be entitled to receive educational assistance. DtlRATION o r E D U C A T I O N A L ASSISTANCE

SEC. 202. (a) Each eligible person shall be entitled to educational assistance under this Act for a period not in excess of thirty-six months (or to the equivalent thereof in part-time training). (b) The period of entitlement of an eligible person under this Act shall be reduced by a period equivalent to any period of education or training received by him under title II of the Veterans' Readjustment staf i m ^^' ^^ Assistance Act of 1952 or of vocational rehabilitation training rela u s*c 9 11, ceived by him under Public Law 894, Eighty-first Congress. 701a. (c) The period of entitlement of an eligible veteran under title II of the Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952 shall be reduced by an amount equivalent to any period of educational assistance received by him under this Act. (d) If an eligible person is entitled to educational assistance under this Act and also to vocational rehabilitation under Public Law 894, Eighty-first Congress, he must elect whether he will receive educational assistance or vocational rehabilitation. If an eligible person is entitled to educational assistance under this Act and is not entitled to

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