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PUBLIC LAW 634r-JUNE 29, 1956
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(d) The Administrator may advise and consult with the Advisory Committee established pursuant to section 262 of the Veterans' Keadjustment Assistance Act of 1952, with respect to the administration of this Act. (e) I n carrying out his functions under this Act, the Administrator may utilize the facilities and services of any other Federal department or agency. Any such utilization shall be pursuant to proper agreement with the Federal department or agency concerned; and payment to cover the cost thereof shall be made either in advance or by way of reimbursement, as may be provided in such agreement. N O N D U P L I C A T I O N OF B E N E F I T S
SEC. 502. (a) The commencement of a program of education or special restorative training under this Act shall be a bar to subsequent payments of compensation or pension under any law administered by the Veterans' Administration based on the death of a parent to an eligible person over the age of eighteen by reason of pursuing a course in an educational institution, or of increased rates, or additional amounts, of compensation or pension under any law administered by the Veterans' Administration because of such a person. (b) No educational assistance allowance or special training allowance shall be paid on behalf of any eligible person under fhis Act for any period during which such person is enrolled in and pursuing a course of education or training paid for by the United States under any provision of law other than this Act, where the payment of an allowance would constitute a duplication of benefits paid from the Federal Treasury to the eligible person or to his parent or guardian in his behalf. CONTROL BY AGENCIES OF UNITED STATES
SEC. 503. No department, agency, or officer of the United States, in carrying out this Act, shall exercise any supervision or control, whatsoever, over any State approving agency, or State educational agency, or any educational institution; however, nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent any department, agency, or officer of the United States from exercising any supervision or control which such department, agency, or officer is authorized, by existing provisions of law, to exercise over any Federal educational institution or to prevent the furnishing of education under this Act in any institution over which supervision or control is exercised by such other department, agency, or officer under authority of existing provisions of law. CONFLICTING INTERESTS
SEC. 504. (a) Every officer or employee of the Veterans' Administration who has, while such an officer or employee, owned any interest in, or received any wages, salary, dividends, profits, gratuities, or services from, any educational institution operated for profit in which an eligible person was pursuing a course of education under this Act shall be immediately dismissed from his office or employment. (b) The Administrator may, after reasonable notice and public hearings, waive in writing the application of this section in the case of any officer or employee of the Veterans' Administration, if he finds that no detriment will result to the United States or to eligible persons by reason of such interest or connection of such officer or employee.
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