Section 14
SEC. 14. This Act shall take effect upon its approval, but the provisions of sections two and three hereof shall be given retroactive effect with respect to officers and enlisted men who died after December eight, nineteen hundred and forty-one and who did not apply for retirement under Commonwealth Act One hundred and ninety during their lifetime but were, at the time of their death and by reason of length of service, otherwise entitled to retire under said Act: Provided, That no provision of this Act shall operate to reduce the retirement pay or gratuity which any retired officer or enlisted man is receiving at the time this Act takes effect. Approved, July 26, 1948.