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KESERVES AND NATIONAL GUARDSMEN WHO ARE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES SEC. 29. (a) Each Reserve of the armed forces or member of the National Guard who is an officer or employee of the United States or the District of Columbia, permanent or temporary indefinite, without regard to classification or terminology peculiar to the Civil Service system, is entitled to leave of absence from his duties, without loss of pay, time, or efficiency rating for each day, but not more than 15 days in any calendar year, in which he is on active duty, or is engaged in field or coast defense training under sections 502-505 of title 32, United States Code. (b) Each person covered by subsection (a) who is ordered to active duty, or to duty under sections 502-505 of title 32, United States Code, is entitled, upon release from duty, to be restored to the position held by him when ordered to duty. (c) Any Reserve or member of the National Guard may accept any civilian position under the United States or the District of Columbia and may receive the pay incident to that employment in addition to pay and allowances as a Reserve or member of the National Guard. Membership in a reserve component of the armed forces or in the National Guard does not prevent a person from practicing his civilian profession or occupation before, or in connection with, any department of the United States. (d) When he is not on active duty, or when he is on active duty for training, a Reserve is not considered to be an officer or employee of the United States or a person holding an office of trust or profit or discharging any official function under, or in connection with, the United States because of his appointment, oath, or status, or any duties or functions performed or pay or allowances received in that capacity.

FUND FOR PAYING CERTAIN NATIONAL GUARD OFFICERS SEC. 30. The pay and allowances for the Chief of the National Guard Bureau and officers ordered to active duty from the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States under section 3496 or 8496 of title 10, United States Code, shall be paid out of the funds appropriated for the pay of the Army National Guard or the Air National Guards DISBURSEMENT OF PAY OF MEMBERS OF NATIONAL GUARD SEC. 31. All amounts appropriated for the pay, under section 501 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as amended (37 U.S.C. 301), of enlisted members of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States for attending regular periods of duty and instruction shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Finance Corps of the Army or finance officers of the Air Force, as the case may be. All such disbursements shall be made for such three-month periods for

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