Public Law 83–459

the first proviso contained in numbered paragraph (1) of subsection 505 (b) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 is amended to read as follows: “Provided, That in the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Veterinary Corps, and chaplains promotion lists there shall be no second lieutenants, and the numbers authorized in the grade of first lieutenant in such promotion lists shall be all those not authorized in higher grades:”.

The third clause of the second sentence of subsection 506 (c) of such Act is amended to read as follows: “each person appointed and commissioned an officer of the Veterinary Corps shall, at the time of appointment,

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be credited with an amount of service equal to three years;”.

The third sentence of subsection 506 (g) of such Act is amended to read as follows: “Effective December 31, 1947, each commissioned officer of the Medical Corps who on that date has less than four years’ service credit, each commissioned officer of the Dental Corps, each Regular Army Chaplain, each commissioned officer of the Judge Advocate General’s Department, and each commissioned officer of the Veterinary Corps, who as of that date had less than three years’ service credit, shall, for promotion, seniority, and promotion-list-position purposes, be credited as of that date with four years’ service and three years’ service, respectively.”

Each person appointed and commissioned an officer of the Veterinary Corps subsequent to December 31, 1947, who, at time of appointment, was credited with less than three years’ service under the second sentence of subsection 506 (c) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, shall, for promotion, seniority, and promotion-list-position purposes, be credited as of the date of appointment with three years’ service: Provided, That no back pay or allowances shall be held to have accrued as the result of the enactment of this subsection for any period prior to the date of enactment thereof.