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PUBLIC LAW 85-56-JUNE 17, 1957

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charged under conditions other than dishonorable from the period of service in which said injury or disease was incurred, or preexisting injury or disease was aggravated, compensation as hereinafter provided in this part, but no compensation shall be paid if the disability is the result of the veteran's own willful misconduct. PROVISIONAL

ACCEPTANCE

SEC. 332. Any person, who, after August 26, 1940, and before January 1, 1947, or during the Korean conflict (1) applied for enlistment or enrollment in the active military, naval, or air service and was provisionally accepted and directed or ordered to report to a place for final acceptance into such service, (2) was selected for military, naval, or air service and after reporting pursuant to the call of his local draft board and prior to rejection, or (3) after being called into the Federal service as a member of the National Guard but before being enrolled for the Federal service, suffered an injury or contracted a disease in line of duty and not the result of his own misconduct, will be considered to have incurred such disability in the active military, naval, or air service. Such person and the survivors of any such person who died from such disability before January 1, 1957, will be entitled to compensation provided by this title for veterans of service during other than a period of war and their dependents. If the disability was incurred during World W a r II or the Korean conflict, the applicable rates of compensation provided by parts B and C shall be payable. P R E S U M P T I O N OF SOUND CONDITION

SEC. 333. For the purposes of section 331, every person employed in the active military, naval, or air service for six months or more shall be taken to have been in sound condition when examined, accepted and enrolled for service, except as to defects, infirmities, or disorders noted at the time of the examination, acceptance and enrollment, or where evidence or medical judgment is such as to warrant a finding that the disease or injury existed before acceptance and enrollment. P R E S U M P T I O N S RELATING TO CERTAIN DISEASES

SEC. 334. (a) For the purposes of section 331, and subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, any veteran who served for six months or more and contracts a tropical disease or a resultant disorder or disease originating because of therapy administered in connection with a tropical disease, or as a preventative thereof, shall be deemed to have incurred such disability in the active military, naval, or air service when it is shown to exist within one year after separation from active service, or at a time when standard and accepted treatises indicate that the incubation period thereof commenced during active service. (b) Service connection shall not be granted pursuant to subsection (a), in any case where the disease or disorder is shown by clear and unmistakable evidence to have had its inception before or after active service. (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the granting of service connection for any disease or disorder otherwise shown by sound judgment to have been incurred in or aggravated by active service.

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