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 81 STAT.]

549

PUBLIC LAW 90-179-DEC. 8, 1967

of law, an officer of the Navy or Marine Corps serving as Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Xavy is entitled to the basic pay of a rear admiral (lower half) or brigadier general, as appropriate." SEC. 8. (a) In this section "law specialist'' means a line officer on the active or retired list of the Regular Navy or of the Naval Reserve designated for special duty (law) or a line officer of the Naval Reserve assigned a numerical designator indicating a special duty officer (law). (b) All law specialists in the Navy are redesignated as judge advocates in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the Navy. Each law specialist of the Navy who is on a promotion list on the day before the effective date of this Act shall be placed on the appropriate promotion list for the Judge Advocate General's Corps and shall be eligible for promotion when the officer who is to be his running mate in the next higher grade becomes eligible for promotion in that grade. SEC. 9. Nothing in this Act shall operate to terminate or reduce the term of an officer who was serving as Deputy and Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Navy on the day before the effective date of this Act or to deprive him of the rank, pay, allowances, or retirement privileges to which he was then entitled. Notwithstanding any other provision of law", an officer who was so serving on the day before the effective date of this Act shall be deemed to be detailed as Deputy Judge Advocate General, pursuant to section 5149 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by this Act, and, in addition to rights and benefits then accrued, to be entitled to the rank and retirement benefits authorized by that section. For the purposes of determining his eligibility for the retirement benefits authorized by section 5149 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by this Act, an officer who is serving as Deputy Judge Advocate General on the effective date of this Act shall be credited with all service performed under appointment or detail as Deputy and Assistant Judge Advocate General before the effective date of this Act. SEC. 10. This Act does not affect rights accrued, duties matured, or proceedings commenced before its effective date. Redesignation of an officer under section 8(b) of this Act shall not operate to change the computation of his service for any purpose. SEC. 11. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all proAdsions of law applicable to a male officer in the Judge Advocate GeneraFs Corps of the Navy, including the Naval Reserve, are applicable to a woman officer in that corps. SEC. 12. Title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting the words ", the Judge Advocate General's Corps," after the words ''the Medical Corps" in section 5652a and by inserting the words "the Judge Advocate General's Corps," after the words "the Medical Corps," in sections 5581, 5702(b), 5708(c)(1), 5753(b), 5896(a)(8) and (4), 5897(c)(1), and 6378(b)(7). Approved December 8, 1967.

" Law specialist."

Redesignation in the J u d g e Advocate G e n e r a l ' s Corps, Navy.

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p. 546.

Applicability for women naval officers.

72 Stat. 1495.

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