Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 84 Part 1.djvu/386

 328 79 Stat. 881.

PUBLIC LAW 91-291-JUNE 25, 1970

[84 STAT.

§£0. 3. Section 768 of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "§ 768. Duration and termination of coverage; conversion " (a) Each policy purchased under this subchapter shall contain a provision, in terms approved by the Administrator, to the effect that any insurance thereunder on any member of the uniformed services, unless discontinued or reduced upon the written request of the insured, shall continue in effect while the member is on active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training scheduled in advance by competent authority during the period thereof, and such insurance shall cease— " (1) with respect to a member on active duty or active duty for training under a call or order to duty that does not specify a period of less than thirty-one days— " (A) one hundred and twenty days after the separation or release from active duty or active duty for training, unless on the date of such separation or release the member is totally disabled, under criteria established by the Administrator, in which event the insurance shall cease one year after the date of separation or release from such active duty or active duty for training, or on the date the insured ceases to be totally disabled, whichever is the earlier date, but in no event prior to the expiration of one hundred and twenty days after such separation or release; or " (B) at the end of the thirty-first day of a continuous period of (i) absence without leave, (ii) confinement by civil authorities under a sentence adjudged by a civilian court, or (iii) confinement by military authorities under a courtmartial sentence involving total forfeiture of pay and allowances. Any insurance so terminated as the result of such an absence or confinement, together with any beneficiary designation in effect for such insurance at such termination thereof, shall be automatically revived as of the date the member is restored to active duty with pay or to active duty for training with pay. "(2) with respect to a member on active duty or active duty for training under a call or order to duty that specifies a period of less than thirty-one days insurance under this subchapter shall cease at midnight, local time, on the last day of such duty, unless on such date the insured is suffering from a disability incurred or aggravated during such period which, within ninety days after such date, (i) results in his death, or (ii) renders him uninsurable at standard premium rates according to the good health standards approved by the Administrator, in which event the insurance shall continue in force to death, or for ninety days after such date, whichever is the earlier date. "(3) with respect to a member on inactive duty training scheduled in advance by competent authority insurance under this subchapter shall cease at the end of such scheduled training period, unless at such time the insured is suffering from a disability incurred, or aggravated during such period which, within ninety days after the date of such training, (i) results in his death, or (ii) renders him uninsurable at standard premium rates according to the good health standards approved by the Administrator

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