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80Trn CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 83-FEB. 28, 1948 such service exceeds that to which he would be entitled under such paragraph. "(3) For purposes of promotion, any person originally appointed in the Regular Corps to the senior assistant grade or above who has had active service in the Reserve Corps shall be considered as having had on the date of appointment the length of service provided for in paragraph (1), plus whichever of the following is greater: (A) The excess of his total active service in the Reserve Corps (above the grade of junior assistant) over the length of service provided in such paragraph, to the extent that such excess is on account of service in the Reserve Corps in or above the grade to which he is appointed in the Regular Corps or (B) his active service in the same or any higher grade in the Reserve Corps after the first day on which, under regulations in effect on the date of his appointment to the Regular Corps, he would have had the training and experience necessary for such appointment. "(4) For purposes of promotion, any person whose original appointment is to the assistant grade in the Regular Corps shall be considered as having had on the date of appointment service equal to his total active service in the Reserve Corps in and above the assistant grade." (e) Beginning as of the date of enactment of this Act, any officer of the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service on active duty on such date shall, in lieu of the service with which he was credited for the purposes of pay and pay period at the time of his appointment to such corps, receive credit, if it is greater, for three years if his appointment was to the senior assistant grade, twelve years if it was to the full grade, twenty years if it was to the senior grade, and twenty-six years if it was to the director grade. (f) Any person appointed to any grade above the assistant grade in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service after enactment of this Act and prior to July 1, 1948, shall, for purposes of pay and pay period, and (except in the case of an appointment to the director grade) for purposes of promotion, receive the credit provided under section 207 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended by this Act, or shall receive credit, if it is greater, of three years if appointed to the senior assistant grade, twelve years if appointed to the full grade, twenty years if appointed to the senior grade, and twenty-six years if appointed to the director grade. In the case of an officer so appointed to the full or senior grade (1) he shall receive two years' seniority in grade if appointed to the full grade and three years' if appointed to the senior grade, and (2) he shall be considered as having completed the one year of service in grade required for promotion to a restricted grade or to the director grade, as the case may be. (g) Subsection (b) of the section herein redesignated as section 208 is amended to read: "(b) Reserve officers, except when otherwise provided by law, shall receive the same pay and allowances when on active duty as commis- sioned officers of the Regular Corps, including allowances for travel and transportation of household goods and effects." (h) Subsection (h) of the section herein redesignated as section 208 is amended by striking out "section 208 (d)" and inserting in lieu thereof "section 207 (f) ". (i) Such Act is further amended by inserting after the section herein redesignated as section 208 the following new section: "PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES "SEC. 209. (a) For the purpose of establishing eligibility of officers of the Regular Corps for promotions, the Surgeon General shall by Active service In Reserve Corps. Ante, p. 40 . Assistant grade. Officer of Regular Corps on active duty. Appointment above assistant grade. 68 Stat. 685 . 42U.8. . 1 209. Ante, p. 40 . Appointment to full or senior grade. 58 Stat. 686. 42U.S.C.§210(b. Ante, p. 40 . Reserve officars. 58 Stat. 687. 42U. .C. §210(h). Ante, p. 40 . 41 62 STAT.]