Private Law 81–341

That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the date of enactment of this Act the names of all Medical Service Corps promotion-list officers shall be rearranged on the Medical Service Corps promotion list so that within each grade their names shall appear in the order of their precedence determined by the total amount of service creditable to them for promotion purposes under existing law and in cases of an equal amount of such service, the officer with the greatest amount of continuous commissioned service on the active list of the Regular Army shall have precedence, and, in cases where this is the same, precedence shall be in accordance with permanent seniority standing as established at time of original appointment in the Regular Army, and in cases not covered by the foregoing, precedence shall be established by the Secretary of the Army: Provided, That in rearranging the officers on the promotion list as provided in this Act no officer who has once failed of selection for promotion under the provisions of any section of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 shall have his name advanced above that of any other officer who was considered at

61 Stat. 795.

34 U. S. C., Supp II, § 3a note.

the same time and selected for promotion to the grade involved.