Public Law 78–455

That any person granted national service life insurance under Public Law 97 and Public Law 99, Seventy-seventh Congress, approved June 3, 1941, shall be deemed to have continued such insurance in force by payment of premiums whether or not such premiums were or were not paid so long as he remains in active military service as a commissioned officer and not permanently relieved from duty involving participation in regular and frequent aerial flights: Provided, That any premiums due and unpaid at the death of such person whose insurance is deemed to have been in force under the provisions of this section shall constitute a lien against the proceeds of such insurance.

Sec. 2.

Section 602 of the National Service Life Insurance. Act of 1940 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection (s) to read as follows:

“(s)“(s)

Payment of insurance benefits shall not be denied in any case in which the applicant for insurance died prior to July 1, 1942, and the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs finds that the failure to pay premiums or to effect deductions thereof as provided in section 602 (m) hereof, could in any way be attributed to the inadequacy of the Service Department’s procedure for authorizing deductions of premiums from active service pay prior to that date, or to want of proper instructions as to the requirements of such procedure: Provided, That premiums due on such insurance shall be deducted from the proceeds of the insurance unless otherwise adjusted.”

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Sec. 3.

Any liability under this amendatory Act shall be chargeable to the National Service Life Insurance appropriation.