Payments of Amounts Due Mentally Incompetent Members of the Naval Service

This final rule removes the Department of the Navy (DON) regulation concerning Payments of Amounts Due Mentally Incompetent Members of the Naval Service. Removal is appropriate because the regulation does not affect how the public engages the DON regarding these payments and does not place obligations on the public. The Department of Defense, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) issue internal instructions that establish requirements for competency boards, the process for determining mental incompetence, and the process and requirements for making payments within the parameters established by many controlling statutes. These internal instructions do not require publication in the Code of Federal Regulations.