Public Law 70–787

That section 17 of the Act approved June 10, 1922, entitled “An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service,” as amended, is hereby further

Retired pay.

Active duty since retirement included in longevity pay, etc.

amended by inserting after the words “provided in this Act,” and before the next proviso, line 3 of said section, the following: “which pay shall include increases for all active duty performed since retirement in the computation of their longevity pay and pay periods.”

And after the phrase, “receive full pay and allowances,” at the end of the last line of said section, by changing the period to a comma and inserting thereafter the following: “and when on active-duty

Pay, etc., while on leave or sick, as officers on active duty.

Benefits to dependents, if dying on leave or sick.

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status, shall have the same pay and allowance rights while on leave of absence or sick as officers on the active list, and if death occurs when on active-duty status, while on leave of absence or sick, their dependents shall not thereby be deprived of the benefits provided in Act approved December 17, 1919, as amended, and in the Act of June 4, 1920: Provided, That no back pay or allowances

Proviso.

No back pay, etc.

shall accrue by reason of the passage of this Act.”