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the training and service prescribed in subsection (b) of this section.

(5) Within the limits of the quota determined under section 5 (b) [section 455 (b) of this Appendix] for the subdivision in which he resides, at such time as induction into the National Security Training Corps is authorized pursuant to the provisions of this title [sections 451, 453, 454, 455, 456 and 458 to 471 of this Appendix], any person after attaining the age of seventeen shall with the written consent of his parents or guardian be afforded an opportunity to volunteer for induction into the National Security Training Corps for the training prescribed in subsection (k) of section 4 of this title [subsection (k) of this section].

(d) Transfer to Reserve component; period of service. (1) Each person who hereafter and prior to the enactment of the 1951 Amendments to the Universal Military Training and Service Act [June 19, 1951] is inducted, enlisted, or appointed (except a person enlisted under subsection (g) of this section) and serves for a period of less than three years in one of the armed forces and meets the qualifications for enlistment or appointment in a reserve component of the armed force in which he serves, shall be transferred to a reserve component of such armed force, and until the expiration of a period of five years after such transfer, or until he is discharged from such reserve component, whichever occurs first, shall be deemed to be a member of such reserve component and shall be subject to such additional training and service as may now or hereafter be prescribed by law for such reserve component: Provided, That any such person who completes at least twenty-one months of service in the armed forces and who thereafter serves satisfactorily (1) on active duty in the armed forces under a voluntary extension for a period of at least one year, which extension is authorized, or (2) in an organized unit of any reserve component of any of the armed forces for a period of at least thirty-six consecutive months, shall, except in time of war or national emergency declared by the Congress, be relieved from any further liability under this subsection to serve in any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, but nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent any such person, while in a reserve component of such forces, from being ordered or called to active duty in such forces.

(2) Each person who hereafter and prior to the enactment of the 1951 Amendments to the Universal Military Training and Service Act [June 19, 1951] is enlisted under the provisions of subsection (g) of this section and who meets the qualifications for enlistment or appointment in a reserve component of the armed forces shall, upon discharge from such enlistment under honorable conditions, be transferred to a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States and shall serve therein for a period of six years or until sooner discharged. Each such person shall, so long as he is a member of such reserve component, be liable to be ordered to active duty, but except in time of war or national emergency declared by the Congress no such person shall be

ordered to active duty, without his consent and except as hereinafter provided, for more than one month in any year. In case the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force determines that enlistment, enrollment, or appointment in, or assignment to, an organized unit of a reserve component or an officers' training program of the armed force in which he served is available to, and can without undue hardship be filled by, any such person, it shall be the duty of such person to enlist, enroll, or accept appointment in, or accept assignment to, such organized unit or officers' training program and to serve satisfactorily therein for a period of four years. Any such person who fails or refuses to perform such duty may be ordered to active duty, without his consent, for an additional period of not more than twelve consecutive months. Any such person who enlists or accepts appointment in any such organized unit and serves satisfactorily therein for a period of four years shall, except in time of war or national emergency declared by the Congress, be relieved from any further liability under this subsection to serve in any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, but nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent any such person, while in a reserve component of such forces, from being ordered or called to active duty in such forces. The Secretary of Defense is authorized to prescribe regulations governing the transfer of such persons within and between reserve components of the armed forces and determining, for the purpose of the requirements of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, the credit to be allowed any person so transferring for his previous service in one or more reserve components.

(3) Each person who, subsequent to June 19, 1951, and on or before August 9, 1955, is inducted, enlisted, or appointed, under any provision of law, in the Armed Forces, including the reserve components thereof, or in the National Security Training Corps prior to attaining the twenty-sixth anniversary of his birth, shall be required to serve on active training and service in the Armed Forces or in training in the National Security Training Corps, and in a reserve component, for a total period of eight years, unless sooner discharged on grounds of personal hardship, in accordance with regulations and standards prescribed by the Secretary of Defense (or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the United States Coast Guard). Each such person, on release from active training and service in the Armed Forces or from training in the National Security Training Corps, shall, if physically and mentally qualified, be transferred to a reserve component of the Armed Forces, and shall serve therein for the remainder of the period which he is required to serve under this paragraph and shall be deemed to be a member of the reserve component during that period. If the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the United States Coast Guard, determines that enlistment, enrollment, or appointment in, or assignment to, an organized unit of a reserve component or an officers' training program of the armed force in which he

served is available to, and can, without undue personal hardship, be filled by such a person, that person shall enlist, enroll, or accept appointment in, or accept assignment to, the organized unit or officers' training program, and serve satisfactorily therein. (e) Pay and allowances.

With respect to the persons inducted for training and service under this title [sections 451, 453, 454, 455, 456 and 458 to 471 of this Appendix] there shall be paid, allowed, and extended the same pay, allowances, pensions, disability and death compensation, and other benefits as are provided by law in the case of other enlisted men of like grades and length of service of that component of the armed forces to which they are assigned. Section 3 of the Act of July 25, 1947 (Public Law 239, Eightieth Congress), is amended by deleting therefrom the following: "Act of March 7, 1942 (56 Stat. 143 to 148, ch. 166), as amended". The Act of March 7, 1942 (56 Stat. 143 to 148), as amended, is made applicable to persons inducted into the armed forces pursuant to this title [sections 451, 453, 454, 455, 456 and 458 to 471 of this Appendix].

(f) Additional compensation from civilian sources.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who is inducted into the armed forces under this Act and who, before being inducted, was receiving compensation from any person may, while serving under that induction, receive compensation from that person.

(g) Occupational deferment recommendations by the National Security Council.

The National Security Council shall periodically advise the Director of the Selective Service System and coordinate with him the work of such State and local volunteer advisory committees which the Director of Selective Service may establish, with respect to the identification, selection, and deferment of needed professional and scientific personnel and those engaged in, and preparing for, critical skills and other essential occupations. In the performance of its duties under this subsection the National Security Council shall consider the needs of both the Armed Forces and the civilian segment of the population.

(h) Repealed. June 19, 1951, ch. 144, § 1 (h), 65 Stat. 80. (i) Omitted.

(j) National Advisory Committee for selection of medical, etc., categories.

The President shall establish a National Advisory Committee which shall advise the Selective Service System and shall coordinate the work of such State and local volunteer advisory committees as may be established to cooperate with the National Advisory Committee, with respect to the selection of needed medical and dental and allied specialist categories of persons. The members of the National Advisory Committee shall be selected from among individuals who are outstanding in medicine, dentistry, and the sciences allied thereto, but except for the professions of medicine and dentistry, it shall not be mandatory that all such fields of endeavor be represented on the committee.

In the performance of their functions, the National Advisory Committee and the State and local

volunteer advisory committees shall give appropriate consideration to the respective needs of the Armed Forces and of the civilian population for the services of medical, dental, and allied specialist personnel; and, in determining the medical, dental, and allied specialist personnel available to serve the needs of any community, such committees shall give appropriate consideration to the availability in such community of medical, dental, and allied specialist personnel who have attained the thirty-fifth anniversary of their birth.

It shall be the duty of the National Advisory Committee in conjunction with the State and local volunteer advisory committees to make determinations with respect to persons in residency training programs who shall be recommended for deferment for the purpose of completing such residency programs, and in making such determinations shall give appropriate consideration to the respective needs of the Armed Forces and the civilian population. The National Advisory Committee in conjunction with the State and local volunteer advisory committees are further authorized to make appropriate recommendations with respect to members of the faculties of medical, dental, veterinary, and allied specialists schools, schools of public health, and with respect to physicians, dentists and veterinarians engaged in essential laboratory and clinical research, having due regard to the respective needs of the Armed Forces and the civilian population. (k) Reduction of periods of service; establishment of National Security Training Corps; composition; service; pay.

(1) Upon a finding by him that such action is justified by the strength of the Armed Forces in the light of international conditions, the President, upon recommendation of the Secretary of Defense, is authorized, by Executive order, which shall be uniform in its application to all persons inducted under this title [sections 451, 453, 454, 455, 456 and 458 to 471 of this Appendix] but which may vary as to age groups, to provide for (A) decreasing periods of service under this title [said sections] but in no case to a lesser period of time than can be economically utilized, or (B) eliminating periods of service required under this title [said sections].

(2) Whenever the Congress shall by concurrent resolution declare

(A) that the period of active service required of any age group or groups of persons inducted under this title [said sections] should be decreased to any period less than twenty-four months which may be designated in such resolution; or

(B) that the period of active service required of any age group or groups of persons inducted under this title [said sections] should be eliminated, the period of active service in the Armed Forces of the age group or groups designated in any such resolution shall be so decreased or eliminated, as the case may be. Whenever the period of active service required under this title Isaid sections] of persons who have not attained the nineteenth anniversary of the day of their birth has been reduced or eliminated by the President or as a result of the adoption of a concurrent resolution of the Congress in accordance

with the foregoing provisions of this section, all individuals then or thereafter liable for registration under this title [said sections] who on that date have not attained the nineteenth anniversary of the day of their birth and have not been inducted into the Armed Forces shall be liable, effective on such date, for induction into the National Security Training Corps as hereinafter established for initial military training for a period of six months.

(3), (4) Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 656.

(5) The Commission shall, subject to the direction of the President, exercise general supervision over the training of the National Security Training Corps, which training shall be basic military training. The Commission shall establish such policies and standards with respect to the conduct of the training of members of the National Security Training Corps as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. The Commission shall make adequate provisions for the moral and spiritual welfare of members of the National Security Training Corps. The Secretary of Defense shall designate the military departments to carry out such training. Each military department so designated shall carry out such military training in accordance with the policies and standards of the Commission. The military department or departments so designated to carry out such military training shall, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense, and subject to the policies and standards established by the Commission, determine the type or types of basic military training to be given to members of the National Security Training Corps.

(6) Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 656.

(7) Not later than four months following confirmation of the members of the Commission, the Commission shall submit to the Congress legislative recommendations which shall include, but not be limited to

(A) a broad outline for a program deemed by the Commission and approved by the Secretary of Defense to be appropriate to assure that the training carried out under the provisions of this Act shall be of a military nature, but nothing contained in this paragraph shall be construed to grant to the Commission the authority to prescribe the basic type or types of military training to be given members of the National Security Training Corps;

(B) measures for the personal safety, health, welfare and morals of members of the National Security Training Corps;

(C) a code of conduct, together with penalties for violation thereof;

(D) measures deemed necessary to implement the policies and standards established under the provisions of paragraph (5) of this subsection; and

(E) disability and death benefits and other benefits, and the obligations, duties, liabilities and responsibilities, to be granted to or imposed upon members of the National Security Training Corps.

All legislative recommendations submitted under this paragraph shall be referred to the Committees on Armed Services of the two Houses, and each of such committees shall, not later than the expiration of the first period of 45 calendar days of continuous sessions of the Congress, following the date on which the recommendations provided for in this paragraph are transmitted to the Congress, report thereon to its House: Provided, That any bill or resolution reported with respect to such recommendations shall be privileged and may be called up by any member of either House but shall be subject to amendment as if it were not so privileged.

(8) No person shall be inducted into the National Security Training Corps until after

(A) a code of conduct, together with penalties for violation thereof, and measures providing for disability and death benefits have been enacted into law; and

(B) such other legislative recommendations as are provided for in paragraph (7) [of this subsection] shall have been considered and such recommendations or any portion thereof shall have been enacted with or without amendments into law; and

(C) the period of service required under this title [sections 451, 453, 454, 455, 456 and 458 to 471 of this Appendix] of persons who have not attained the nineteenth anniversary of the day of their birth has been reduced or eliminated by the President or as a result of the adoption of a concurrent resolution of the Congress in accordance with paragraph (2) of this subsection.

(9) Six months following the commencement of induction of persons into the National Security Training Corps, and semiannually thereafter, the Commission shall submit to the Congress a comprehensive report describing in detail the operation of the National Security Training Corps, including the number of persons inducted therein, a list of camps and stations at which training is being conducted, a report on the number of deaths and injuries occurring during such training and the causes thereof, an estimate of the performance of the persons inducted therein, including an analysis of the disciplinary problems encountered during the preceding six months, the number of civilian employees of the Commission and the administrative costs of the Commission. Simultaneously, there shall be submitted to the Congress by the Secretary of Defense a report setting forth an estimate of the value of the training conducted during the preceding six months, the cost of the training program chargeable to the appropriations made to the Department of Defense, and the number of personnel of the Armed Forces directly engaged in the conduct of such training.

(10) Each person inducted into the National Security Training Corps shall be compensated at the monthly rate of $30: Provided, however, That each such person, having a dependent or dependents as such terms are defined in the Career Compensation Act of 1949, shall be entitled to receive a dependency allowance equal to the sum of the basic allowance for quarters provided for persons in pay grade E-1 by section 302 (f) of the Career Compensation Act of 1949 as amended by section 3 of the

Dependents' Assistance Act of 1950 [section 403(a) of Title 371 as may be extended or amended plus $40 so long as such person has in effect an allotment equal to the amount of such dependency allowance for the support of the dependent or dependents on whose account the allowance is claimed.

(11) No person inducted into the National Security Training Corps shall be assigned for training at an installation located on land outside the continental United States, except that residents of Territories and possessions of the United States may be trained in the Territory or possession from which they were inducted.

(1) Order to active duty of reserve components in medical, dental, or allied specialist categories; period; age limit; computation of period; opportunity to resign commission; volunteer service. (1) The President may order to active duty (other than for training), as defined in section 101 (22) of title 10, United States Code, for a period of not more than twenty-four consecutive months, with or without his consent, any member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States who is in a medical, dental, or allied specialist category, who has not attained the thirty-fifth anniversary of the date of his birth, and has not performed at least one year of active duty (other than for training). This subsection does not affect or limit the authority to order members of the reserve components to active duty contained in section 672 of title 10, United States Code.

(2) For the purposes of computation of the periods of active duty (other than for training) referred to in subsection (1), credit shall be given for all periods of one day or more performed under competent orders, except that no credit shall be allowed for periods spent in student programs prior to receipt of the appropriate professional degree or in intern training.

(3) Any person who is called or ordered to active duty (other than for training) from a reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States after September 5, 1950, and thereafter serves on active duty (other than for training) as a medical, dental, or allied specialist for a period of twelve months or more shall, upon release from active duty or within six months thereafter, be afforded an opportunity to resign his commission from the reserve component of which he is a member unless he is otherwise obligated to serve on active military training and service in the Armed Forces or in training in a reserve component by law or contract.

(4) Any physician or dentist who meets the qualifications for a Reserve commission in the respective military department shall, so long as there is a need for the services of such a physician or dentist, be afforded an opportunity to volunteer for a period of active duty (other than for training) of not less than twenty-four months. Any physician or dentist who so volunteers his service, and meets the qualifications for a Reserve commission shall be ordered to active duty (other than for training) for not less than twenty-four months, notwithstanding the grade or rank to which such physician or dentist is entitled. (June 24, 1948, ch. 625, title I, § 4, 62 Stat. 605; Sept. 9, 1950, ch. 939, § 1, 64 Stat. 826; Sept. 27, 47-500 0-71-vol. 11-14

1950, ch. 1059, §§ 1 (1) -(5), 3(a), 64 Stat. 1073; June 19, 1951, ch. 144, title I, § 1 (d-j), 65 Stat, 76; July 9, 1952, ch. 608, pt. VIII, § 813, 66 Stat. 509; June 29, 1953, ch. 158, §§ 1, 2, 6, 67 Stat. 86, 89; June 30, 1955, ch. 250, title II, § 202, 69 Stat, 225; Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 665, § 3(a), 69 Stat. 602; Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, §§ 22 (a), (b), (c), 53, 70A Stat, 630, 641; June 27, 1957, Pub. L. 85-62, §§ 1-3, 71 Stat. 206; July 28, 1958, Pub. L. 85-564, 72 Stat. 424; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85-861, §§ 9, 36A, 72 Stat. 1556, 1569; Sept. 7, 1962, Pub. L. 87-651, title III, §301, 76 Stat. 524; Sept. 6, 1966, Pub. L. 89-554, § 8(a), 80 Stat. 656; June 30, 1967, Pub. L. 90-40, § 1(2), 81 Stat. 100.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

This Act, referred to in text, is act June 24, 1948, ch. 625, 62 Stat. 604, as amended. Title I of the act, as amended, is classified to sections 451, 453, 454, 455, 456, and 458-471 of this Appendix, Title II of the act was classified to various sections of former Title 10, Army and Air Force. See Tables volume. For location of such sections in revised Title 10, Armed Forces, see disposition table set out at the beginning of Title 10, Armed Forces.

Date of enactment of the 1951 Amendments to the Universal Military Training and Service Act, referred to in subsecs. (a) sixth par., (c) (1) and (d) (1), (2), is June 19, 1951.

The effective period of this Act, referred to in subsec. (c) (2), is defined in section 467 of this Appendix. Section 3 of the act of July 25, 1947 (Public Law 239, Eightieth Congress), referred to in subsec. (e), provided that the termination of the war and emergencies should be deemed to be July 25, 1947.

Act of March 7, 1942 (56 Stat. 143-148, ch. 166), as amended, referred to in subsec. (e), is classified to sections 1001-1012, 1013-1017 of this Appendix.

AMENDMENTS

1967-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90-40, § 1(2)(a), added proviso that registrants failing or refusing to report for induction continue to remain liable for induction and to be immediately inducted when available.

Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 90-40, § 1(2)(b), added subsec. (g). A former subsec. (g), authorizing one year enlistments in the armed services by male persons between 18 and 19, was repealed by act June 19, 1951, ch. 144, § 1(h). 65 Stat. 80.

1966 Subsec. (k) (3), (4), (6). Pub. L. 89-554 repealed subsecs. (k) (3), (4) and (6), which established the National Security Training Commission, provided for its composition, tenure, pay and duties, and authorized appointment and pay of employees.

1962-Subsec. (d) (3). Pub. L. 87-651 eliminated provisions which required each person inducted into the National Security Training Corps to serve in the Armed Forces or the National Security Training Corps for a total of eight years, unless sooner discharged because of personal hardship, and requiring each person covered by this subsection who is not a reserve, and who is qualified, upon his release from training, to be transferred to a reserve component to complete the service required by this subsection.

1958-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85-564 added, at the end of the third paragraph, proviso authorizing President to modify standards fixed by preceding two provisos, except in war or national emergency.

Subsec. (d) (3). Pub. L. 85-861 repealed provisions that required persons inducted, enlisted, or appointed, in the Armed Forces to serve on active training and service in the Armed Forces and in a reserve component for a total of six years, and inserted provisions requiring transfer to reserve components of persons released from active training and service in the Armed Forces or from training in the National Security Training Corps and authorizing enlistment, enrollment, or appointment in, or assignment to, an organized unit of a reserve component or an officers' training program of the armed force in which a person served. See section 651 of Title 10, Armed Forces.

1957-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85-62, § 1, inserted next to last paragraph providing that no medical, dental, or allied specialist shall be inducted if he applies or applied for appointment as a Reserve officer in one of such categories and is rejected on the sole ground of physical disqualification.

Subsec. (j). Pub. L. 85-62, § 3, eliminated "as referred to in subsection (1)" following the words "categories of persons" at the end of the first sentence, and substituted "thirty-fifth" for "fifty-first" in the last sentence of the second par.

Subsec. (1). Pub. L. 85-62, § 2, added subsec. (1).

1956 Subsec. (a). Act Aug. 10, 1956, § 53, repealed provisions prohibiting assignment to duty outside the United States until the member of the Armed Forces has had the equivalent of four months of basic training, and relating to communications with Members of Congress, and are now covered by sections 671 and 1034 of Title 10, Armed Forces.

Subsec. (b). Act Aug. 10, 1956, § 22 (a), authorized the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Treasury, to provide by regulations for the release from training and service in the Armed Forces of those individuals who are accepted into organized units of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard and other reserve components.

Subsec. (d) (3). Act Aug. 10, 1956, § 22(b), provided that "Each person who is inducted into the National Security Training Corps shall serve in the armed forces or the National Security Training Corps for a total of eight years, unless he is sooner discharged because of personal hardship under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Each person covered by this subsection who is not a Reserve, and who is qualified, shall, upon his release from training, be transferred to a reserve component of an armed force to complete the service required by this subsection."

Subsec. (f). Section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956 purportedly repealed subsec. (f). However, section 22(c) of the act amended the subsection to clarify the authority to receive compensation. See also, section 1023 of Title 10, Armed Forces.

1955-Subsec. (d) (3). Act Aug. 9, 1955, provided for a six-year term of duty for persons who are inducted, enlisted, or appointed after Aug. 9, 1955.

Subsec. (1) (1). Act June 30, 1955, exempted from service persons who attained their thirty-fifth anniversary of their date of birth and who were rejected for service on the ground of physical disqualification, and to reduce the maximum age of liability of induction from 51 to 46 years of age.

1953-Subsec. (1), par. (2). Act June 29, 1953, § 6, in clause "First" struck out "subsequent to the completion of or release from the program or course of instruction" following "Public Health Service"; and, in clause "Second", substituted "seventeen months" for "twentyone months", and struck out "subsequent to the completion of or release from the program or course of instruction" following "Public Health Service".

Subsec. (1), pars. (4)-(7). Act June 29, 1953, § 1, added subsec. (1), pars. (4)—(7).

Subsec. (j). Act June 29, 1953, § 2, added third par. 1952-Subsec. (d) (3). Act July 9, 1952, substituted "appointed under any reserve components

thereof," for "appointed in the Armed Forces". 1951-Subsec. (a). Act June 19, 1951, § 1(d) lowered the age limit from 19 years to 182, provided for training in the National Security Training Corps, lowered the physical and mental standards, provided for a basic training period, and allowed communication with Members of Congress.

Subsec. (b). Act June 19, 1951, § 1(e) increased length of service from 21 to 24 months.

Subsec. (c). Act June 19, 1951, § 1(f) eliminated the short-term Army enlistment period and the General Classification Test, and established the age for voluntary induction.

Subsec. (d). Act June 19, 1951, § 1(g) inserted "and prior to * and Service Act" following "hereafter"

in pars. (1) and (2), and added par. (3).

Subsec. (e). Act June 19, 1951, § 1(i) inserted "6g" following "sections" in par. (1), and extended period of service from 21 to 24 months.

Subsec. (g). Act June 19. 1951, § 1(h), repealed subsec. (g), which related to enlistments in armed service for one year by male persons between 18 and 19 years. Subsec. (h). Act June 19, 1951, § 1(h), repealed subsec. (h), which related to permanent assignment outside continental United States.

Subsec. (k). Act June 19, 1951, § 1(j), added subsec. (k).

1950 Subsec. (a). Act Sept. 27, 1950, § 1 (1—4), inserted before the period in the third sentence of the first par. the phrase "and such number * • United States Coast Guard", inserted before the period in the second par. the phrase "or the Secretary of the Treasury". inserted after "the Secretary of Defense" in the third par. the phrase "or the Secretary of the Treasury”, inserted after "United States Marine Corps" in the fourth par. the phrase "or the United States Coast Guard". Subsec. (b). Act Sept. 27, 1950, § 1(5), inserted before the period the phrase, "or the Secretary of the Treasury". Subsec. (c). Act Sept. 27, 1950, § 3 (a), added par. (4). Subsecs. (1) and (j). Act Sept. 9, 1950, added subsecs. (i) and (j).

EFFECTIVE AND TERMINATION DATES OF 1957
AMENDMENTS

Section 9 of Pub. L. 85-62 as amended by Pub. L. 86-4, § 4, Mar. 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 13; Pub. L. 88-2, § 4, Mar. 28, 1963, 77 Stat. 4; Pub. L. 90-40, § 4, June 30, 1967, 81 Stat. 105, provided that: "This Act [amending this section and sections 455 and 456 of this Appendix, and notes set out under this section and section 454a of this Appendix, and notes set out under section 171a of former Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees, and section 234b of former Title 37, Pay and Allowances] takes effect July 1, 1957, and shall terminate on July 1, 1971."

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1952 AMENDMENT

Section 813 of act July 9, 1952, provided in part that the amendment of this section should be effective as of June 19, 1951.

REPEAL OF PRIOR ACTS CONTINUING SECTION Section 6 of Joint Res. July 3, 1952, repealed Joint Res. Apr. 14, 1952, ch. 204, 66 Stat. 54 as amended by Joint Res. May 28, 1952, ch. 339, 66 Stat. 96; Joint Res. June 14, 1952, ch. 437, 66 Stat. 137; Joint Res. June 30, 1952, ch. 526, 66 Stat. 296, which continued provisions until July 3, 1952. This repeal shall take effect as of June 16, 1952, by section 7 of Joint Res. July 3, 1952.

TERMINATION DATE OF SUBSECS. (I) AND (J) Section 7 of act Sept. 9, 1950, as amended by acts June 19, 1951, § 2 (b); June 29, 1953, § 9; and June 30, 1955, § 201, and by Pub. L. 85-62, § 8, provided that subsecs. (1) and (1) of this section, which were added by act Sept. 9, 1950, shall terminate as of June 30, 1957. Subsec. (i) was amended by acts June 29, 1953, and June 30, 1955, as explained in notes above. See Effective and Termination Dates of 1957 Amendment note above with respect to subsec. (j) as reenacted and amended by Pub. L. 85-62.

SHORT TITLE

Act Sept. 9, 1950, which added subsecs. (1) and (1) to this section, popularly known as "Doctors Draft Act", see note under section 454a of this Appendix.

DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Authority vested in President by subsec. (1) (1) of this section delegated to Secretary of Defense, see section 1(a) of Ex. Ord. No. 10762, set out as a note under section 454a of this Appendix.

NATIONAL SECURITY TRAINING COMMISSION

The National Security Training Commission expired June 30, 1957, pursuant to letter of the President on Mar. 25, 1957, following Commission's own recommendation for its termination.

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

Secretary of Transportation has been substituted for Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to Pub. L. 89-670, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 931, which created the Department of Transportation and transferred all functions, powers, and duties, relating to the Coast Guard, of the Secretary of

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