[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR17.41]

[Page 646-647]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 17_MEDICAL--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  17.41  Persons eligible for hospital observation and physical

examination.

    Hospitalization for observation and physical (including mental) 
examination may be effected when requested by an authorized official, or 
when found necessary in examination of the following persons:
    (a) Claimants or beneficiaries of VA for purposes of disability 
compensation, pension, participation in a rehabilitation program under 
38 U.S.C. chapter 31, and Government insurance. (38 U.S.C. 1711(a))
    (b) Claimants or beneficiaries referred to a diagnostic center for 
study to determine the clinical identity of an obscure disorder.
    (c) Employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs when necessary 
to determine their mental or physical fitness to perform official 
duties.
    (d) Claimants or beneficiaries of other Federal agencies:
    (1) Department of Justice--plaintiffs in Government insurance suits.
    (2) United States Civil Service Commission--annuitants or applicants 
for retirement annuity, and such examinations of prospective appointees 
as may be requested.
    (3) Office of Workers' Compensation Programs--to determine identity, 
severity, or persistence of disability.
    (4) Railroad Retirement Board--applicants for annuity under Public 
No. 162, 75th Congress.
    (5) Other Federal agencies.

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    (e) Pensioners of nations allied with the United States in World War 
I and World War II, upon authorization from accredited officials of the 
respective governments.

[13 FR 7156, Nov. 27, 1948, as amended at 16 FR 12091, Nov. 30, 1951; 19 
FR 6716, Oct. 19, 1954; 32 FR 13813, Oct. 4, 1967; 39 FR 32606, Sept. 
10, 1974; 49 FR 5616, Feb. 14, 1984. Redesignated and amended at 61 FR 
21965, 21966, May 13, 1996]