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PUBLIC LAW 854-JULY 31, 1956

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FORFEITURE OF A N N U I T I E S OF PERSONS REMAINING OUTSIDE UNITED STATES TO AVOID PROSECUTION

SEC. 405. The Act entitled "An Act to prohibit payment of annuities to officers and employees of the United States convicted of certain offenses, and for other purposes", approved September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1142), is amended by adding at the end of section 2 thereof a new sub- 740i;"uUSC 32«i27 section as follows: " (c) I n any case in which, after the date of enactment of this subsection, any person under indictment for any offense within the purview of the first section of this Act willfully remains outside the United States, its Territories, and possessions, for a period in excess of one year with knowledge of such indictment, no annuity or retired pay shall be paid, for any period subsequent to the end of such one-year period to such person or to the survivor or beneficiary of such person, on the basis of the service of such person, as an officer or employee of the Government unless and until a nolle prosequi to the entire indictment is entered upon the record or such person returns and thereafter the indictment is dismissed or after trial by court the accused is found not guilty of the offense or offenses charged in the indictment." EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 406. This title shall take effect on the first day of the first month which begins more than sixty days after the date of enactment of this Act. SHORT TITLE

SEC. 407. This title may be cited as the "Civil Service Retirement Act Amendments of 1956." TITLE

V—ADDITIONAL SCIENTIFIC PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

AND

SEC. 501. (a) Subsections (a) and (b) of the first section of the Act of August 1, 1947 (61 Stat, 715; Public Law 313. Eightieth Congress), ^^f^ysc i7ip and as amended, are amended to read as follows: " (a) the Secretary of Defense is authorized to establish and fix the compensation for not more than one hundred and twenty positions in the Department of Defense and not more than twenty-five positions in the National Security Agency, each such position being established to effectuate those research and development functions, relating to the national defense, military and naval medicine, and any and all other activities of the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency, as the case may be, which require the services of specially qualified scientific or professional personnel. " (b) The Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is authorized to establish and fix the compensation for, in the headquarters and research stations of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, not to exceed thirty positions in the professional and scientific service, each such position being established in order to enable the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to secure and retain the services of specially (5[ualified personnel necessary in the discharge of the duty of the Committee to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution,"

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