Volume 65
Public Law 82–174
To amend the Veterans Regulations to provide that multiple sclerosis developing a 10 per centum or more degree of disability within two years after separation from active service shall be presumed to be service-connected.
Approved October 12, 1951
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Veterans Regulations to provide that multiple sclerosis developing a 10 per centum or more degree of disability within two years after separation from active service shall be presumed to be service-connected.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the second last proviso of subparagraph (c) of paragraph I, part I, Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, is hereby amended by inserting
38 U. S. C. note foll. ch. 12.
after the words “three years” the words “, or multiple sclerosis developing a 10 per centum degree of disability or more within two years”.
Approved October 12, 1951.