definitions

definitions Sec. 102. (a) For the purposes of this Act— (1) The term “World War I” means the period beginning on April 6, 1917, and ending on November 11, 1918. (2) The term “World War II” means the period beginning on December 7, 1941, and ending on December 31, 1946. (3) The term “Korean conflict” means the period beginning on June 27, 1950, and ending on January 31, 1955. (4) The term “eligible person” means a child of a person who died of a disease or injury incurred or aggravated in line of duty in the active service in the Armed Forces during World War I, World War II, or the Korean conflict, but only if such service did not terminate under dishonorable conditions. The standards and criteria for determining incurrence or aggravation of a disease or injury in line of duty shall be those applicable under disability compensation laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration. (5) The term “child” means a legitimate or legally adopted child, a stepchild if he was a member of the household of the parent from whom eligibility is derived, or an illegitimate child if it is shown by evidence satisfactory to the Administrator that the person from whom eligibility is derived was the parent. (6) The term “Armed Forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States. (7) The term “duty with the Armed Forces” as used in section 203 means (A) full-time duty in the active military or naval service, other than for training purposes, (B) full-time active duty for training for a period of six or more consecutive months by a member of a reserve component (including the National Guard), or (C) active duty for training required by section 262 (c) (1) of the Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952. (8) The term “parent or guardian” means a father, a mother, a father through adoption, a mother through adoption, a fiduciary legally appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction, or any person who is determined by the Administrator in accordance with section 21 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended (38 U. S. C., 70 Stat. 412 sec. 450), to be otherwise legally vested with the care of the eligible person. (9) The term “program of education” means any curriculum or any combination of unit courses or subjects pursued at an educational institution which is generally accepted as necessary to fulfill the requirements for the attainment of a predetermined and identified educational, professional, or vocational objective. (10) The term “educational institution” means any public or private secondary school, vocational school, business school, junior college, teachers’ college. college, normal school, professional school, university, or scientific or technical institution, or any other institution if it furnishes education at the secondary school level or above. (11) The term “State” means each of the several States, Territories and possessions of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (12) The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs. (13) The term “special restorative training” means training furnished under title IV. (b) If an eligible person has attained his majority and is under no known legal disability, all references in this Act to “parent or guardian” shall refer to the eligible person himself. (c) Any provision of this Act which requires any action to be taken by or with respect to the parent or guardian of an eligible person who has not attained his majority, or who, having attained his majority, is under a legal disability, shall not apply when the Administrator determines that its application would not be in the best interest of the eligible person, would result in undue delay, or would not be administratively feasible. In such a case the Administrator, where necessary to protect the interest of the eligible person, may designate some other person (who may be the eligible person himself) as the person by or with respect to whom the action so required should be taken.