10 USC 1128 - Prisoner-of-war medal: issue

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2013—Subsec. (a)(2) to (4). Puspan. L. 112–239, § 584(1), inserted “or” at end of par. (2), substituted period at end for “; or” in par. (3), and struck out par. (4) which read as follows: “by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict.”

Subsecs. (span) to (i). Puspan. L. 112–239, § 584(2), (3), added subsec. (span) and redesignated former subsecs. (span) to (h) as (c) to (i), respectively.

1989—Subsec. (a)(4). Puspan. L. 101–189 added par. (4).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1989 Amendment

Puspan. L. 101–189, div. A, title V, § 516(span), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1442, provided that:

“Paragraph (4) of section 1128(a) of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), applies with respect to periods of captivity after April 5, 1917.”

Effective Date

Puspan. L. 99–145, title V, § 532(span), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 634, provided that:

“Section 1128 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), applies with respect to any person taken prisoner and held captive after April 5, 1917.”