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Public Law 121
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PUBLIC LAW 121-JULY 16, 1953 CHAPTER 198
AN ACT To facilitate civil-service appointment of persons who lost opportunity therefor because of service in the Armed Forces after June 30, 1950, and to provide certain benefits upon appointment.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) any person (1) who serves in the Armed Forces of the United States at any time after June 30, 1950, and prior to the expiration of the authority to induct persons into the Armed Forces under the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, (2) whose name appears on any civil-service register after June 30, 1950, with respect to a position in the Government of the United States or in the municipal government of the District of Columbia, and (3) during whose service in the Armed Forces subsequent to June 30, 1950, another eligible standing lower on such list of eligibles received a probational appointment therefrom, shall be entitled to be placed on the original or appropriate successor register for certification for probational appointment, (b) The Civil Service Commission is authorized and directed to place such persons on such original registers or appropriate successor registers with the same priority accorded persons entitled to the benefits of the Act entitled "An Act to provide benefits for certain employees of the United States who are veterans of World W a r II and lost opportunity for civil-service appointments by reason of their service in the Armed Forces of the United States", approved July 31, 1946 (Public Law 577, Seventy-ninth Congress), as amended. (c) Upon the probational appointment of any such person as a result of such restored eligibility, he shall, for the purpose of determining (1) his rate of basic compensation, (2) his seniority rights, (3) in the case of a position in the postal field service, his grade and time-in-grade, and (4) in the case of a position to which the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, applies, his within-grade step increases (including credit for that period of time not used in determining his rate of basic compensation), be held to have been appointed to such position as of the earliest date the Civil Service Commission finds, in accordance with section 1(a) of this Act, a lower ranking eligible was probationally appointed. (d) No regular employee in the postal field service shall be reduced to substitute status by reason of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 2. (a) No person shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act unless— (1) he shall have been separated or relieved from active duty under honorable conditions from the Armed Forces; (2) he is qualified to perform the duties of the position for which the register on which he is to be placed is established; and (3) he makes application to be placed on such original register or appropriate successor register within ninety days after (A) the date of his separation or relief from active duty from the Armed Forces, (B) the date of the termination of hospitalization continuing for a period of not more than one year after his separation or relief from active duty from the Armed Forces, or (C) the date of enactment of this Act, whichever is later. (b) No person shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act who— (1) voluntarily continues service (including reenlistments) in other than a reserve component of the Armed Forces and who serves more than four years (plus any additional service imposed pursuant to law) or 27000 O - 53 - 14
July 16, 1953 [S. 1684]
Veterans. R e s to r a t i o n of civil-service l i gibility. 65 Stat. 75. 50 U S C a p p. 4 S l, et s e q.
Priority.
60 Stat. 749. 5 USC 645a and note, 645b.
63 Stat. 954. 5 USC 1071 note.
Postal service.
field
Requirements.
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