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Career Compensation Act of 1949 PG-18

PROVISIONS RELATING TO INCREASE OF RETIRED PAY BY ACTIVE DUTY

SEC. 516. Members and former members of the uniformed services, including members of the Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, who have been, or may hereafter be, retired or transferred to the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve and entitled to receive retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or equivalent pay computed under the provisions of this or any other Act, shall be entitled, subject to the provisions hereinafter listed, to receive increases in such retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or equivalent pay for all active duty performed after retirement or transfer to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve: Provided, That the retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or equivalent pay to which such member or former member shall be entitled upon his release from active duty shall be computed by multiplying the years of service creditable to him for purposes of computing retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or equivalent pay at the time of his retirement or transfer plus the number of years of subsequent active duty performed by him by 21/2 per centum, and by multiplying the product thus obtained by the base and longevity pay or the basic pay, as the case may be, of the rank or grade in which he would be eligible, at the time of his release from active duty, to be retired or transferred except for the fact that he is already a retired person or a member of the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve: Provided, That for the purpose of computing increases in retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or equivalent pay of any member or former member, fractions of one-half year or more of active duty performed subsequent to retirement or transfer by such member or former member shall be counted as a whole year: Provided further That in the case of an officer heretofore retired with pay computed at a rate of either 3 or 4 per centum as the multiplier for each year of service allowed in the computation of the retired pay, active duty performed subsequent to the effective date of this section shall not increase the retired or retirement pay for such officer upon his return to retired status unless such officer elects to have his retired or retirement pay computed by one of the two methods provided in section 511 of this Act, subject to the limitations imposed therein: And provided further, That in no event shall retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or equivalent pay exceed 75 per centum of the active duty pay or basic pay which such person would be entitled to receive if he were serving on active duty in the rank or grade which is the basis for the computation of his retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or equivalent pay.

SAVING PROVISION AND AMENDMENTS RELATING TO MEMBERS OF THE MARINE BAND

SEC. 517. (a) Section 11 of the Act of March 4, 1925, as amended by section 1 (c) of the Act of June 29, 1946 (60 Stat. 843; 34 U. S. C. 701), is hereby further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 11. The band of the United States Marine Corps shall consist of one leader, who shall be paid the basic pay, the basic allowances, and such other allowances as are authorized by the Career Compensation Act of 1949 to be paid to commissioned officers in pay grade 0-3 and with the same number of cumulative years of service; one second leader, who shall be paid the basic pay, the basic allowances, and such other allowances as are authorized by the Career Compensation Act of 1949 to be paid to warrant officers in pay grade W-3 and with the same number of cumulative years of service, and such other personnel in such numbers and distributed in such grades and ranks as the Secretary of the Navy may determine necessary and appropriate: Provided, That hereafter during concert tours approved by the President, personnel of the Marine Band shall suffer no loss of allowances."

(b) Personnel of the band of the United States Marine Corps serving under appointments authorized by law in effect on the date of enactment of this Act who may be appointed to appropriate grades or ranks in consequence of the amendment of such law by subsection (a) of this section shall not suffer by reason of such appointment any reduction in the pay and allowances to which they would have been entitled either in their current enlistment or during any subsequent enlistment or after transfer to the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve or to the retired list. No former member of the band of the United States Marine Corps who has been heretofore retired or heretofore transferred to the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve shall suffer any reduction in retirement or retainer pay to which he would otherwise have been entitled but for enactment of this Act.

SAVING PROVISION RELATING TO FORMER LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE AND FORMER BUREAU OF MARINE INSPECTION PERSONNEL

SEC. 518. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to diminish any of the rights, benefits, and privileges authorized and conferred--

(1) by the Act of August 5, 1939 (53 Stat. 1216), as amended by the Act of June 24, 1948 (Public Law 761, Eightieth Congress), upon personnel of the former Lighthouse Service; and

(2) by the Act of July 23, 1947 (61 Stat. 411), for personnel of the categories described in sections 3 (6), 5 (7), and 6 (5) of said Act,

who were commissioned, appointed, or enlisted in the regular Coast Guard pursuant to said Acts of August 5, 1939, and July 23, 1947, respectively.

SAVING PROVISION RELATING TO MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS RECEIVING RETIREMENT PAY ON DATE OF ENACTMENT OF THIS ACT

SEC. 519. Any member or former member of the uniformed services or any person entitled to the rights, benefits, and privileges of a member or former member of the uniformed services, including any person entitled to the benefits provided in the Act of May 7, 1948 (62 Stat. 211), who on the date of enactment of this Act, is receiving or is entitled to receive retired or retirement pay pursuant to any provision of law, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, be entitled to continue to receive or shall continue his entitlement to receive that retired or retirement pay which such member or former member is entitled to receive under any provision of law in effect on the day preceding date of enactment of this Act.

SAVING PROVISION RELATING TO LAWS PROVIDING FOR PAY REPEALED BY THIS ACT

SEC. 520. Any provision of law which, on the date of enactment of this Act, entitles any person to be retired, to receive pay, retired pay, retirement pay, or retainer pay, or other monetary benefit, and which is directly repealed, impliedly repealed, or amended by the provisions of this Act, shall, if the entitlement of such person to such retirement, pay, retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or other monetary benefit is saved by the provisions of this Act, be continued in full force and effect for such entitlement and for such a time as such entitlement may exist.


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[1]United States Statutes at Large, Volume 63, pg. 802-841, Government Printing Office.

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