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§561.

Warrant officers: effect of failure of selection for promotion A regular warrant officer who has been considered by a selection board for promotion under section 559 of this title, but not selected, shall be considered for promotion by each later selection board that considers officers in his permanent regular grade, until he is retired, separated, or selected for promotion. §562.

Warrant officers: disapproval of promotion by Secretary concerned. President, or Senate (a) If the Secretary concerned, the President, or the Senate disapproves the promotion of a permanent regular warrant officer before it takes effect, his name shall be removed from the list of those selected for the promotion and he continues to be eligible for consideration for promotion. (b) If the next selection board selects that warrant officer for promotion, his name shall be replaced without prejudice on the list from which it was removed. If he is promoted, his date of appointment is the date it would have been had his name not been removed. (c) If the next selection board does not select him for promotion, or if his name is again removed under subsection (a) from the list of officers selected by the next selection board, he shall be treated as if he had twice failed of selection for promotion.

§ 563. Warrant officers: promotion; effective date (a) A permanent regular warrant officer who is selected for promotion to the next higher permanent regular warrant officer grade by the first selection board that considered him for promotion to that grade, and who is qualified under section 557(a) of this title, shall be promoted to that grade. His date of appointment in that grade is the day after he completes the service prescribed in section 559 of this title. (b) A permanent regular warrant officer who is selected for promotion to the next higher permanent regular warrant officer grade after having previously failed of selection for promotion to that grade, and who is qualified under section 557(a) of this title, shall be promoted to that grade. His date of appointment in that grade is the earlier of the following date^: (1) One year after the date upon which his promotion would have been effective had he been selected by the last selection board that failed to select him. (2) The earliest date upon which any warrant officer who did not fail of selection, and whose name follows his on the list submitted to the Secretary under section 660(g) of this title, is promoted to that grade. § 564. Warrant officers: effect of second failure of promotion (a) Unless retired or separated under some other provision of law, a permanent regular warrant officer who has twice failed of selection for promotion to the next higher permanent regular warrant officer grade shall—

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