(e) The provision of subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this section shall not apply when such members are entitled to receive basic pay as provided for in title II of this Act.
(f) (1) Section 55a of the National Defense Act, as amended (10 U. S. C. 422), is hereby amended by striking out the words "subsection (c), section 14, Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended", appearing in the third proviso thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the words "subsection (a) of section 501 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949".
(2) Sections 55a, 109, and 110 of the National Defense Act, as amended, are hereby amended by striking out the words "section 14 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended", wherever appearing therein, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "section 501 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949".
(3) Section 501 of this Act and sections 55a, 109, and 110 of the National Defense Act, as amended, shall be applicable to the Department of the Air Force: Provided, That all references in section 501 of this Act and sections 55a, 109, and 110 of the National Defense Act, as amended, to the Secretary of the Army, the Department of the Army, the Regular Army, the National Guard, the National Guard of the United States, the Organized Reserve Corps, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the Enlisted Reserve Corps and the Organized Reserves, shall be construed for the purpose of interpreting section 501 of this Act and sections 55a, 109, and 110 of the National Defense Act, as amended, as likewise referring to the Secretary of the Air Force, the Department of the Air Force, the Regular Air Force, the Air National Guard, the Air National Guard of the United States, the Air Force Reserve, the officers' section of the Air Force Reserve, the enlisted section of the Air Force Reserve, and personnel of the Organized Reserves transferred to the Department of the Air Force, respectively.
ACTIVE SERVICE CREDIT IN COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
SEC. 502. Active service in the Coast and Geodetic Survey as deck officer or junior engineer and active service counted on June 30, 1922, for longevity pay, shall be credited to commissioned officers as active commissioned service for purposes of pay, allowances, retirement, and retirement pay.
PAYMENTS BASED ON PURPORTED MARRIAGES
SEC. 503. Payments of allowances based on a purported marriage and made prior to judicial annulment or termination of such marriage which have been or which hereafter may be made under the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended, or under this Act are valid: Provided, That it is adjudged or decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction that the marriage was entered into in good faith on the part of the spouse in the uniformed services or that, in the absence of such a judgment or decree, such finding of good faith is made by the Secretary concerned or by such person as he may designate for the purpose.
CONTRACT SURGEONS
SEC. 504. Contract surgeons who are serving full time with any of the uniformed services shall be entitled to be paid the minimum basic pay, the basic allowances, and such other allowances as are authorized by this Act to be paid to commissioned officers in pay grade 0-2. Contract surgeons who are serving part time with any of the uniformed services shall be entitled to receive the allowances for travel and transportation prescribed pursuant to this Act under the same conditions and in the same amount as are applicable to commissioned officers.
ENLISTED PERSONS--CLOTHING ALLOWANCE
SEC. 505. The President may prescribe the quantity and kind of clothing which shall be furnished annually to enlisted men of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Naval Reserve, the Marine Corps Reserve, the National Guard, the Air National Guard, the National Guard of the United States, the Air National Guard of the United States, the Organized Reserve Corps, the Air Force Reserve, and the Coast Guard Reserve, and he may prescribe the amount of a cash allowance to be paid to such enlisted men in any case in which clothing is not so furnished to them.
ALLOWANCE--SHORE PATROL DUTY
SEC. 506. Officers, midshipmen, and cadets of the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard when absent from a vessel or designated post of duty while assigned to shore patrol duty may be paid their actual expenses.
PAY AND ALLOWANCES--ENLISTED MEN--PHILIPPINE SCOUTS--INSULAR FORCE OF THE NAVY
SEC. 507. (a) The pay and allowances of whatever nature and kind to be authorized for the enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Army and shall not exceed or be of other classes than those now or which may hereafter be authorized by law for enlisted men of the Regular Army.
(b) The pay and allowances of whatever nature and kind to be authorized for the enlisted men of the insular force of the Navy shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy, and shall not exceed or be of other classes than those now, or which may hereafter be authorized by law for enlisted men of the Regular Navy.
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