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[CITE: 10USC1167]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                         CHAPTER 59--SEPARATION
 
Sec. 1167. Members under confinement by sentence of court-
        martial: separation after six months confinement
        
    Except as otherwise provided in regulations prescribed by the 
Secretary of Defense, a member sentenced by a court-martial to a period 
of confinement for more than six months may be separated from the 
member's armed force at any time after the sentence to confinement has 
become final under chapter 47 of this title and the member has served in 
confinement for a period of six months.

(Added Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title V, Sec. 563(a)(1)(A), Feb. 10, 
1996, 110 Stat. 325; amended Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title X, 
Sec. 1074(a)(6), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2659.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 1167, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 91; 
June 28, 1962, Pub. L. 87-509, Sec. 4(a), 76 Stat. 121; Sept. 7, 1962, 
Pub. L. 87-649, Sec. 6(f)(3), 76 Stat. 494, related to severance pay of 
regular warrant officers, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96-513, title I, 
Sec. 109(b)(3), title VII, Sec. 701, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2870, 2955, 
effective Sept. 15, 1981.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-201 substituted ``member has served'' for ``person 
has served''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1161 of this title.
