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PUBLIC LAW 881-AUG. 1, 1956

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inactive duty training. The terms used in this subsection shall have the meanings assigned to them by section 102 of the Servicemen's and Veterans' Survivor Benefits Act." ^"'^' P- ^^*(2) The amendments made by this subsection shall not apply with respect to deaths occurring prior to January 1, 1957, nor shall such amendments apply with respect to insurance granted prior to January 1, 1957, under the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954 to commissioned officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey or of s use 2091 note, the Regular or Eeserve Corps of the Public Health Service. No dependency and indemnity compensation shall be payable under this Act to any widow, child, or parent of any such commissioned officer if any amounts are payable under such insurance'by reason of the death of such officer occurring on or after May 1, 1957. (d)(1) The second sentence of the second paragraph of section 16 of the Act of May 22, 1917 (33 U.S.C. sec. 857), is amended to ^o Stat. 88. read as follows: "Active service of commissioned officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be deemed to be active military service for the purposes of all laws administered by the Veterans' Administration (except the Servicemen's Indemnity Act of 1951) and section 217 of ^°^*' P* 88^' the Social Security Act, and for the purposes of section 210 of the s'/l^s?^^^' *^^' Social Security Act as in effect prior to the Social Security Act Amendments of 1950." 42 USC 410. (2) The amendment made by this subsection (A) shall apply only with respect to service performed on or after July 29, 1945, (B) shall not be construed to affect the entitlement of any person to benefits under the Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952, (C) shall ^^ use 901 note, not be construed to authorize any payment under section 202(i) of the Social Security Act, or under Veterans Regulation Numbered 9 (a), ^us^ch.V2A. for any death occurring prior to January 1, 1957, and (D) shall not be construed to authorize payment of any benefits for any period prior to January 1, 1957. (e) Section 40(b) of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (5 U.S.C. sec. 790 (b)) is amended— ^^ ^'^'' " ° (1) by striking out clauses (2) and (3) and redesignating clauses (4) and (5) as clauses (2) and (3), respectively; and (2) by inserting immediately after "United States" the second time it occurs in the parenthetical phrase in clause (1) the following: ", but excluding commissioned officers of the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, commissioned officers in the Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service on active duty, and commissioned officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey". (f) Section 304 of the Naval Reserve Act of 1938 (34 U.S.C. sec. 855c) is amended (1) by striking out all beginning with "If in time ^2 Stat. 11 si. of peace" through 'Provided further, That" in the third proviso and inserting in lieu thereof " (a) In time of peace", and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: " (b) For the purposes of paragraph I (a) of part II of Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), all members of the Naval Reserve shall 38 usech. 12A. be considered as performing active military or naval service when injured while performing active duty with or without pay, training duty with or without pay, drills, equivalent instruction or duty, appropriate duty, or other prescribed duty, or while performing authorized travel to or from such duties." (g) Section 2 of the Act of August 12, 1935 (38 U.S.C. sec. "^^ Stat. 609. 556a), is amended by inserting immediately after "Public Law Numbered 484, Seventy-third Congress," the following: "the Servicemen's and Veterans' Survivor Benefits Act,". (h)(1) The first sentence of paragraph (1) of section 21 of the '^^ ^tat. 607. World War Veterans' Act, 1924 (38 U.S.C. sec. 450), is amended

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