Volume 68
Public Law 83–403
To further amend section 4 of the Act of September 9, 1950, in relation to the utilization in an enlisted grade or rank in the Armed Forces of physicians, dentists, or those in an allied specialist category.
Approved June 18, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To further amend section 4 of the Act of September 9, 1950, in relation to the utilization in an enlisted grade or rank in the Armed Forces of physicians, dentists, or those in an allied specialist category.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (a) of section 4 of the Act of September 9, 1950 (64 Stat. 828), as that section was amended by section 3 of the Act of June 29, 1953 (67 Stat. 87), is amended by adding the following proviso at the end thereof: “Provided, That any person heretofore or hereafter inducted or ordered to active duty under the authority of this Act who fails to qualify for, or to accept, a commission or whose commission is terminated may be utilized in his professional capacity in an enlisted grade or rank.”
Approved June 18, 1954.