---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3978"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3978"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3978"
units:
  - "Chapter 50 — Servicemembers Civil Relief"
  - "Subchapter IV — Life Insurance"
---

# §3978. Regulations


The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall prescribe regulations for the implementation of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Oct. 17, 1940, ch. 888, title IV, § 408, as added Pub. L. 108–189, § 1, Dec. 19, 2003, 117 Stat. 2854.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 548 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 408 of act Oct. 17, 1940, ch. 888, art. IV, 54 Stat. 1185; Oct. 6, 1942, ch. 581, § 13, 56 Stat. 776, related to law governing applications for protection prior to Oct. 6, 1942, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–12, § 9(18), Mar. 18, 1991, 105 Stat. 40.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable to any case not final before Dec. 19, 2003, see section 3 of Pub. L. 108–189, set out as a note under section 3901 of this title.