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[CITE: 10USC1219]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
      CHAPTER 61--RETIREMENT OR SEPARATION FOR PHYSICAL DISABILITY
 
Sec. 1219. Statement of origin of disease or injury: limitations

    A member of an armed force may not be required to sign a statement 
relating to the origin, incurrence, or aggravation of a disease or 
injury that he has. Any such statement against his interests, signed by 
a member, is invalid.

(Added Pub. L. 85-56, title XXII, Sec. 2201(31)(A), June 17, 1957, 71 
Stat. 160; amended Pub. L. 87-651, title I, Sec. 107(c), Sept. 7, 1962, 
76 Stat. 509.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

                            1962 Act

    Sections 1218 and 1219 are restated, without substantive change, to 
conform to the style adopted for title 10.


                               Amendments

    1962--Pub. L. 87-651 substituted ``Statement of origin of disease or 
injury: limitation'' for ``Statement against interest void'' in section 
catchline, and ``A member of an armed force may not be required to sign 
a statement relating to the origin, incurrence, or aggravation of a 
disease or injury that he has. Any such statement against his interests, 
signed by a member, is invalid'' for ``No person in the Armed Forces may 
be required to sign a statement of any nature relating to the origin, 
incurrence, or aggravation of any disease or injury he may have. Any 
such statement against his own interest, whenever signed, is of no force 
and effect.''


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Jan. 1, 1958, see section 2301 of Pub. L. 85-56, 
71 Stat. 172.
