An Act to confer jurisdiction upon United States district courts to adjudicate certain claims of Federal employees for the recovery of fees, salaries, or compensation
PL 84-562 (H.R.5862), enacted 06/04/1956

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as a commissioned officer of the Regular Army or Regular Air Force 
during which period they were awaiting orders assigning them to their 
initial-duty stations, shall, if application therefor is made within two 
years after the date of enactment of this Act and to the extent they 
have not already been paid therefor, be paid pay and allowances for 
that period. 
Payments of pay and allowances heretofore made to 
these officers for such periods shall be validated upon a determination 
by the Secretary concerned, or his designee, that such payments were 
free from fraud and collusion. 
SEC. 2. Any commissioned officer or former commissioned officer of 
the Regular Army or Regular Air Force who has repaid the United 
States an amount paid to him as pay and allowances for a period 
described in the first section of this Act, is entitled to be paid the 
amount involved, if otherwise proper, under this Act. 
SEC. 3. The Comptroller General of the United States, or his de-
signee, shall, within two years from the date of this Act, relieve dis-
bursing officers, including special disbursing agents, of the Army and 
the Air Force from accountability or responsibility for any payments 
described in this Act, and shall allow credits in the settlement of the 
accounts of such officers or agents for payments which are determined 
by the Secretary concerned, or his designee, to be free from fraud or 
collusion. 
The determination by the Secretary concerned, or his 
designee, shall be final and conclusive upon the Comptroller General: 
Provided. That this section shall not apply to original payments au-
thorized by the first section of this Act or to the repayments authorized 
by section 2 hereof. 
Funds avaUabie. 
gjjc^ 4 ^j^y appropriations available to the military department 
concerned for the pay and allowances of military personnel are avail-
able for payments under this Act. 
Approved June 4, 1956. 
NonapplicabUlty. 
June 4, 1956 
[H. R. 5862] 
Public Law 562 
CHAPTER 363 
AN ACT 
To confer jurisdiction upon United States district courts to adjudicate certain 
claims of Federal employees for the recovery of fees, salaries, or com-
pensation. 
Federal 
employ 
ees. 
Claims jurisdic-
tion. 
62 Stat. 933. 
65 Stat. 727. 
28 u s e 1346. 
Pending cases. 
Restoration. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That, notwithstand-
ing any lapse of time or statute of limitations, and notwithstanding 
section 1346 (d) (2) of title 28, United States Code, the United States 
district courts shall have jurisdiction of all civil actions or claims to 
recover fees, salary, or compensation for official services of employees 
of the United States which were filed jjrior to October 31, 1951, and 
were thereafter dismissed for want of jurisdiction as a result of the 
amendment made to such section by section 50 (b) of the Act entitled 
"An Act to amend certain titles of the United States Code, and for 
other purposes", approved October 31, 1951. 
Such cases which were pending in the district courts or in the courts 
of appeals on October 31, 1951, and which may have been dismissed 
by reason of the withdrawal of jurisdiction during their j)endency, 
shall be restored upon petition to the appropriate court within one 
year after the effective date of this Act. 
Approved June 4, 1956.