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[77 STAT. 218]
PUBLIC LAW 88-000—MMMM. DD, 1963
[77 STAT. 218]

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PUBLIC LAW 88-132-OCT. 2, 1963

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' 1) is entitled, while on sea duty, to; or [2) may be paid, while on duty at a designated place outside the contiguous 48 States and the District of Columbia; special pay at the following monthly rates: "Pay grade E-9 E-8 E-7 E-6..E-6 E-4 E-3 E-2 E-1

Monthly rate

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$22.60 22.60 22.60 20.00 16.00 13.00 9.00 8.00 8.00

"(b) Appropriations of the Department of Defense may not be paid, as foreign duty pay under subsection (a) of this section, to a member of a uniform ^ service who is a resident of a State, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, a possession, or a foreign country and who is serving in that State, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, that possession, or that foreign country, as the case may be." (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), an enlisted member who, on the day before the effective date of this Act, was permanently assigned to duty at a place outside the United States or m Alaska or Hawaii, shall, during the remaining period of that assignment, but not after that place is designated for the purpose of section 305(a)(2) of title 37, United States Code, be paid the basic pay to which he was entitled on that date plus special pay under section 305 of title 37, United States Code, whenever qualified thereunder as that section was in effect on the day before the effective date of this Act, if the total of that basic pay and that special pay is more than the basic pay to which he would otherwise be entitled during that period under section 2 of this Act. (c) The analysis of chapter 5 of title 37, United States Code is amended by striking out the following item: "305. Special pay: sea and foreign duty." and inserting in place thereof the following item: "305. Special pay: while on sea duty or duty at certain places" SAVINGS PROVISION

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SEC. 13. (a) The enactment of this Act does not reduce the rate of dependency and indemnity compensation under section 411 of title 38, United States Code, that any person was receiving on the day before the effective date of this Act or which thereafter becomes payable for that day by reason of a subsequent determination. (b) The enactment of this Act does not reduce the basic pay or the retired pay or retainer pay to which a member or former member of a uniformed service was entitled on the day before the effective date of this Act. EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 14. This Act becomes effective on October 1, 1963. Approved October 2, 1963, 9:40 a.m.