EFFECTIVE DATES.

SEC. 1691. EFFECTIVE DATES. (a) Effective Date for Amendments.— Except as provided in subsection (b), the amendment made by section 1611 and the amendments made by subtitles C and D shall take effect on December 1, 1994. (b) Effective Date for New Reserve Officer Personnel Policies.— (1) The provisions of part III of subtitle E of title 10, United States Code, as added by section 1611, shall become effective on October 1, 1996. The amendments made by part II of subtitle A, by subtitle B, and by section 1671(c)(2) and paragraphs (2), (3)(B), (3)(C), and (4) of section 1675(d) shall take effect on October 1, 1996. (2) Any reference in subtitle E of this title to the effective date of this title is a reference to the effective date prescribed in paragraph (1). (3) The personnel policies applicable to Reserve officers under the provisions of law in effect on the day before the date prescribed in subsection (a) and replaced by the Reserve officer personnel policies prescribed in part III of subtitle E of title 10, United States Code, as added by section 1611, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), continue in effect until the effective date prescribed in paragraph (1). (4) The authority to prescribe regulations under the provisions of part III of subtitle E of title 10, United States Code, as added by section 1611, shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.