Public Law 75–376

That Veterans’

Reserve officers and members of Enlisted Reserves.

Regulation 1 (a), part II, paragraph 1 (a), be amended to read as follows:

“1.

(a)(a)

For disability resulting from personal injury or disease

Provisions of pension laws for peacetime service extended to.

contracted in line of duty or for aggravation of a preexisting injury or disease contracted or suffered in line of duty when such disability was incurred in or aggravated by active military or naval service other than in a period of war service as provided in part I, the United States will pay to any person thus disabled and who was honorably discharged from such period of service in which said injury or disease was incurred, or preexisting injury or disease was aggravated, a pension as hereinafter provided, but no pension shall be paid if the disability is the result of the person’s own misconduct: Provided, That

Proviso.

Reserves in active service, including training, given a pensionable status.

active service, including service for training purposes, performed by a Reserve officer or member of the Enlisted Reserves of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, shall be considered as active military or naval service for the purpose of granting benefits under part II hereof, and it shall not be required that such Reserve officer or enlisted man shall have been discharged from the service. Pension

Pension not paid concurrently with active duty pay, etc.

under this paragraph shall not be paid concurrently with active duty pay or employees’ compensation. Where a person who is eligible for pension hereunder is also eligible for

Choice where also eligible to disability compensation.

the benefits of Employees’ Compensation Act, he shall elect which benefit he shall receive. This

Effective date.

amendment shall be effective June 15, 1933, but payment of pension hereunder shall be effective from the date of receipt in the Veterans’ Administration of application therefor or the date of enactment of this amendment, whichever is the later.”

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