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[CITE: 33USC854a]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    CHAPTER 17--NATIONAL OCEAN SURVEY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 854a. Service credit as deck officer or junior engineer for 
        promotion purposes
        
    For purposes of promotion which is now or may hereafter be 
authorized for officers appointed after June 30, 1922, there shall be 
counted in addition to active commissioned service, service as deck 
officer and junior engineer.

(Jan. 19, 1942, ch. 6, Sec. 2, 56 Stat. 6; June 3, 1948, ch. 390, 
Sec. 22(a), formerly Sec. 21(a), 62 Stat. 300, renumbered Sec. 22(a), 
Pub. L. 87-233, Sec. 1(f), Sept. 14, 1961, 75 Stat. 506; Oct. 12, 1949, 
ch. 681, title V, Sec. 531(b)(32), 63 Stat. 839; June 21, 1955, ch. 172, 
Sec. 3(a), 69 Stat. 169.)


                               Amendments

    1955--Act June 21, 1955, credited all service as deck officer and 
junior engineer.
    1949--Act Oct. 12, 1949, repealed that part of second proviso of 
subsec. (b) relating to service credit as deck officer or junior 
engineer for pay, longevity pay, or retirement purposes.
    1948--Act June 3, 1948, repealed subsecs. (a), (c), (d) and all of 
subsec. (b) except for second proviso which now comprises this section.


                       Effective Date of Amendment

    Amendment by act Oct. 12, 1949, effective Oct. 1, 1949, see section 
533(a) of act Oct. 12, 1949, set out as an Effective Date of 1949 
Amendment note under section 853o of this title.
