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[CITE: 42USC211c]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
        SUBCHAPTER I--ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
                         Part A--Administration
 
Sec. 211c. Promotion credit for medical officers in assistant 
        grade
        
    Any medical officer of the Regular Corps of the Public Health 
Service who--
        (1)(A) was appointed to the assistant grade in the Regular Corps 
    and whose service in such Corps has been continuous from the date of 
    appointment or (B) may hereafter be appointed to the assistant grade 
    in the Regular Corps, and
        (2) had or will have completed a medical internship on the date 
    of such appointment,

shall be credited with one year for purposes of promotion and seniority 
in grade, except that no such credit shall be authorized if the officer 
has received or will receive similar credit for his internship under 
other provisions of law. In the case of an officer on active duty on the 
effective date of this section who is entitled to the credit authorized 
herein, the one year shall be added to the promotion and seniority-in-
grade credits with which he is credited on such date.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, Sec. 220, as added Apr. 30, 1956, ch. 
223, Sec. 3, 70 Stat. 121.)

                       References in Text

    For ``the effective date of this section'', referred to in text, see 
section 7 of act Apr. 30, 1956, which provided in part that this section 
shall become effective the first day of the month following the day of 
enactment, Apr. 30, 1956.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health 
Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, 
and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred 
to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 
1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, set out as a note 
under section 202 of this title. Secretary of Health, Education, and 
Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 
509(b) of Pub. L. 96-88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 
20, Education.
