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PUBLIC LiAW 881-AUG. 1, 1956
any case of issue or reinstatement of insurance on a permanent plan under this section in which it is shown to the satisfaction of the Administrator that total disability of the applicant commenced prior to the date of application. The cost of the premiums waived and total disability income benefits paid by virtue of the preceding sentence and the excess mortality cost in any case where the insurance matures by death from such total disability shall be borne by the United States and the Administrator is authorized and directed to transfer from time to time from the National Service life insurance appropriation to the National Service Life Insurance Fund and from the military and naval insurance appropriation to the United States Government Life Insurance Fund such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the funds for such costs. " (b) Any person who had United States Government life insurance or National Service life insurance on the five-year level premium term plan, the term of which expired while he was in the active service after April 25, 1951, or within one hundred and twenty days after separation from such active service, and in either case prior to January 1, 1957, shall, upon application made while in the active service or within one hundred and twenty days after separation from active service, payment of premiums and evidence of good health satisfactory to the Administrator, be granted an equivalent amount of insurance on the five-year level premium term plan at the premium rate for his then attained age. "(c) Persons deemed to be in the active service for the purposes of section 5 of the Servicemen's Indemnity Act of 1951 shall be deemed to be in the active service for the purposes of this section." (5) Section 619 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940 is amended by striking out "sections 620 and 621 and inserting in lieu thereof "sections 620, 621, and 623". (b)(1) Section 212 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. sec. 213) is amended to read as follows: "MILITARY BENEFITS
"SEC. 212. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), commissioned officers of the Service and their surviving beneficiaries shall, with respect to active service performed by such officers— " (1) in time of war; "(2) on detail for duty with the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard; or "(3) while the Service is part of the military forces of the United States pursuant to Executive order of the President; he entitled to all rights, privileges, immunities, and benefits now or hereafter provided under any law of the United States in the case of commissioned officers of the Army or their surviving beneficiaries on account of active military service, except retired pay and uniform allowances. "(b) The President may prescribe the conditions under which commissioned officers of the Service may be awarded military ribbons, medals, and decorations. "(c) The authority vested by law in the Department of the Army, the Secretary of the Army, or other officers of the Department of the Army with respect to rights, privileges, immunities, and benefits referred to in subsection (a) shall be exercised, with respect to commissioned officers of the Service, by the Surgeon General. " (d) Active service of commissioned officers of the Service shall be deemed to be active military service in the Armed Forces of the United States for the purposes of all laws administered by the Veterans' 69225 O -57 -60 (Vol. 70)
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