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77TH GONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 413-JUNE 16, 1942 Any officer, warrant officer, or enlisted man of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of the United States, not in flying-pay status, who is assigned or attached as a member of a parachute unit, including parachute-jumping schools, and for whom parachute jump- ing is an essential part of his military duty and who, under such reg- ulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Treasury, has received a rating as a parachutist or is undergoing training for such a rating shall receive, while engaged upon duty designated by the head of the department concerned as parachute duty, additional pay of the rate of $100 per month in the case of any such officer or warrant officer, and additional pay at the rate of $50 per month in the case of any such enlisted man. SEC. 19. No person, active or retired, of any of the services men- tioned in the title of this Act, including the Reserve components thereof and the National Guard, shall suffer, by reason of this Act, any reduction in any pay, allowances, or compensation to which he was entitled upon the effective date of this Act: Provided, however, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to deprive any enlisted man transferred to the Fleet Reserve on or prior to the date of enact- ment of this Act, or transferred from the Fleet Reserve to the retired list of the regular Navy for physical disability, of any benefits, includ- ing pay, allowances, or compensation, which he would be entitled to receive upon the completion of thirty years under laws in force on the date of enactment of this Act. The Act of June 10, 1922 (42 Stat. 625), as amended, subsections 12 (a), (b), and (c), of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 885), section 18 of the Act of March 7, 1942 (Public Law 490, Seventy-seventh Congress), and section 8 of the Service Extension Act of 1941 (Public Law 213, Seventy-seventh Congress, approved August 18, 1941), and those portions of the Act of March 2, 1907 (34 Stat. 1217), and of the Act of June 30, 1941 (Public Law 140, Seventy-seventh Congress), which authorize allowances for enlisted men on the retired list, and all other laws and parts of laws which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed: Provided,That Acts or parts of Acts incorporating directly, by implication, or by reference, the provisions of the Act of June 10, 1922, as amended, and not in conflict herewith, shall not be considered modified by the provisions of this Act, except that the pay, allow- ances, or compensation established herein shall be substituted for the pay, allowances, or compensation set out in the Act of June 10, 1922, as amended. No back pay or allowances for any period prior to June 1, 1942, shall accrue by reason of the enactment of this Act. The provisions of this Act shall become effective as of June 1. 1942. SEC. 20. Beginning June 1, 1942, the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy shall every sixty days thereafter report to the Congress the name, age, legal residence, rank, branch of the service, with special qualification therefor, of each person commissioned dur- ing said period in the Army of the United States and in the Naval Establishment respectively from civilian life, who prior thereto has had no commissioned military service: Provided, That the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy shall not be required to report persons commissioned where such disclosure would in his opinion jeopardize the national interest or safety. SEC. 21 . This Act may be cited as the "Pay Readjustment Act of 1942". Approved, June 16, 1942. 65714-43-PT . I -- -24 Parachute duty. Additional pay. No reduction in present compensation. Proviso. Transfers of enlisted men; benefits. Repeals. 37U.S . §§ 1-31; Supp I, §§ 19, 26. Ante, pp. 148, 190. 55 Stat. 627. 50U. S. C ., Supp. I, app. § 358. 55 Stat. 394. 10 U. s.c. 980; Supp. I, § 982a. 34 U.S. C. 431 Proviso. No back pay, eto. Effective date. Persons commis- sioned from civilian life. Report to Congress. Proviso. Exception. Short title. 369 56 STAT.]