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[CITE: 10USC6292]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
               CHAPTER 569--DISCHARGE OF ENLISTED MEMBERS
 
Sec. 6292. Minors enlisted upon false statement of age

    (a) The Secretary of the Navy, under regulations prescribed by him, 
may discharge or release from the naval service, with pay and allowances 
and form of discharge certificate appropriate for his service after 
enlistment, any enlisted member who, as the result of a false statement 
of age on his application for enlistment, was enlisted while under the 
minimum statutory or administrative age limit. A member so discharged or 
released is entitled to transportation in kind and subsistence from the 
place of discharge to his home.
    (b) Appropriations available for pay and allowances, subsistence, 
and transportation of enlisted members of the naval service are 
available for payments under this section.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 391.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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6292(a)...............................  34 U.S.C. 900a.                      Se
pt. 24, 1945, ch. 385, Sec.  1,
                                                                              5
9 Stat. 536.
6292(b)...............................  34 U.S.C. 900a (note).               Se
pt. 24, 1945, ch. 385, Sec.  3,
                                                                              5
9 Stat. 537.
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    The word ``member'' is substituted for the word ``person'' and the 
words ``naval service'' are substituted for the words ``Navy, Marine 
Corps, and the Reserve components thereof''. The words ``form of'' are 
added for clarity. Reference to the date ``September 24, 1945'' is 
omitted as unnecessary. The words ``is entitled to'' are substituted for 
the words ``shall be furnished'' for uniformity. The decision of the 
Comptroller General of December 23, 1949 (B-91297), has not been 
overlooked. That decision, without passing on a case in which the point 
was involved, indicated that the transportation entitlement in 34 U.S.C. 
900a might be impliedly repealed by the Career Compensation Act of 1949. 
The editors of the United States Code Annotated, apparently on the basis 
of this decision, have omitted 34 U.S.C.A. 900a from the 1954 pocket 
part. A conclusion that the section is repealed, however, defeats the 
specific purpose of the provision, which, as indicated in the 
legislative hearings, was to insure that underage dischargees would be 
transported home and not simply released at the place of discharge.
