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Superintendent. 48 Stat. 1128.
66 Stat. 824.
PUBLIC LAW 1 2 0 - J U L Y 16, 1953
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insured or annuitant shall become totally and permanently disabled, as defined by the contract or supplemental contract: Provided, That no such supplemental contract shall be issued or delivered to any person in the District unless and until a copy of the form thereof has been submitted to and approved by the Superintendent under such reasonable rules and regulations as he shall make concerning the provisions in such contracts and their submission to and approval by him." SEC. 2. Section 2 of chapter I of such Act of June 19, 1934, as amended (D. C, Code, 1951 edition, sec. 35-302), is amended by striking therefrom the definition of the word "Superintendent", and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Insurance of the District of Columbia, or the officer or officers, agency or agencies succeeding to his functions under Reorganization Plan Numbered 5 of 1952. EFFECTIVE DATE OF ACT
Ante, pp. 162, 163, 170.
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect ninety days after approval. A policy, rider, or endorsement, which could have been lawfully used or delivered or issued for delivery to any person in the District immediately before the effective date of this Act, may be used or delivered or issued for delivery to any such person during three years after the effective date of this Act without being subject to the provisions of subsection (2), (3), or (4) of section 12: Provided, however, That, when any provision in such policy is in conflict with any provision of such section, the obligations of the insurer shall be governed by the provisions of such section. Approved July 16, 1953. Public Law 120
July 16. 1953 [S. 1078]
Armed Forces. Pay and allows ance certificates.
Effective date. Termination.
C H A P T E R 19?
AN ACT To authorize the use of certificates by officers of the Armed Forces of the United States, in connection with certain pay and allowance accounts of military and civilian personnel.
Be it enacted by the Senate cmd House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That certificates of officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States, executed on and after December 8, 1941, attesting to the existence of the stated facts, and which are filed with and relate to vouchers and papers involving pay and allowances of civilian and military personnel of the departments concerned shall be accepted as supporting such payments so far as said facts are concerned without the necessity of any other supporting evidence or certificates. The Secretaries of the departments concerned shall prescribe regulations governing the conditions under which, and the classes and types of facts to which, the above authority will be applicable, and those regulations shall, as far as practicable, be uniform. Such regulations ^YQscribed by the Secretaries of military departments shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on April 2, 1953, and shall terminate upon the issuance of a proclamation by the President, or the adoption by the Congress of a concurrent resolution, terminating the national emergency existing on the date of the enactment of the Act, or on April 1, 1954, whichever is earlier. Approved July 16, 1953.
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