---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 U.S.C. § 603"
title: "37"
title_heading: "Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services"
number: "603"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/37/603"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Payments to Mentally Incompetent Persons"
---

# §603. Regulations


The [Secretary concerned](/usc/37/101.md?p=5) and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall prescribe regulations necessary to carry out this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–649, Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 484; Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title XVI, § 1621(b)(2), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1604.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 603 | 37:353 (1st 28 words). | June 21, 1950, ch. 342, § 3 (1st 28 words), 64 Stat. 249; Aug. 7, 1959, Pub. L. 86–145, § 2, 73 Stat. 297. |

The words “effectively” and “provisions of” are omitted as surplusage.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1989—Pub. L. 101–189 substituted “Secretary of Veterans Affairs” for “Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs”.