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42 U.S.C. § 1711 — Definitions

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42 U.S.C. § 1711 — Definitions

When used in this chapter— **(a)** The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Labor. **(b)** The term “war-risk hazard” means any hazard arising during a war in which the United States is engaged; during an armed conflict in which the United States is engaged, whether or not war has been declared; or during a war or armed conflict between military forces of any origin, occurring within any country in which a person covered by this chapter is serving; from— (1) the discharge of any missile (including liquids and gas) or the use of any weapon, explosive, or other noxious thing by a hostile force or person or in combating an attack or an imagined attack by a hostile force or person; or (2) action of a hostile force or person, including rebellion or insurrection against the United States or any of its Allies; or (3) the discharge or explosion of munitions intended for use in connection with a war or armed conflict with a hostile force or person as defined herein (except with respect to employees of a manufacturer, processor, or transporter of munitions during the manufacture, processing, or transporting thereof, or while stored on the premises of the manufacturer, processor, or transporter); or (4) the collision of vessels in convoy or the operation of vessels or aircraft without running lights or without other customary peacetime aids to navigation; or (5) the operation of vessels or aircraft in a zone of hostilities or engaged in war activities. **(c)** The term “hostile force or person” means any nation, any subject of a foreign nation, or any other person serving a foreign nation (1) engaged in a war against the United States or any of its allies, (2) engaged in armed conflict, whether or not war has been declared, against the United States or any of its allies

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42 U.S.C. § 1651 — Compensation authorized

**(a) Places of employment** Except as herein modified, the provisions of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, approved March 4, 1927 (44 Stat. 1424), as amended [[33 U.S.C. 901](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section901&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], shall apply in respect to the injury or death of any employee engaged in any employment— (1) at any military, air, or naval base acquired after January 1, 1940, by the United States from any foreign government; or (2) upon any lands occupied or used by the United States for military or naval purposes in any Territory or possession outside the continental United States (including the United States Naval Operating Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and the Canal Zone); or (3) upon any public work in any Territory or possession outside the continental United States (including the United States Naval Operating Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and the Canal Zone), if such employee is engaged in employment at such place under the contract of a contractor (or any subcontractor or subordinate subcontractor with respect to the contract of such contractor) with the United States; but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to apply to any employee of such a contractor or subcontractor who is engaged exclusively in furnishing materials or supplies under his contract; (4) under a contract entered into with the United States or any executive department, independent establishment, or agency thereof (including any corporate instrumentality of the United States), or any subcontract, or subordinate contract with respect to such contract, where such contract is to be performed outside the continental United States and at places not within the areas described in subparagraphs (1)–(3) of this

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42 U.S.C. § 1701 — Compensation for injury or death resulting from war-risk hazard

**(a) Persons covered** In case of injury or death resulting from injury— (1) to any person employed by a contractor with the United States, if such person in an employee specified in chapter 11 of this title, and no compensation is payable with respect to such injury or death under such chapter; or (2) to any person engaged by the United States under a contract for his personal services outside the continental United States; or (3) to any person employed outside the continental United States as a civilian employee paid from nonappropriated funds administered by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Army and Air Force Motion Picture Service, Navy Ship’s Store Ashore, Navy exchanges, Marine Corps exchanges, officers’ and noncommissioned officers’ open messes, enlisted men’s clubs, service clubs, special service activities, or any other instrumentality of the United States under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense and conducted for the mental, physical, and morale improvement of personnel of the Department of Defense and their dependents; or (4) to any person who is an employee specified in [section 1651(a)(5) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1651/a/5&num=0&edition=prelim), if no compensation is payable with respect to such injury or death under chapter 11 of this title or to any person engaged under a contract for his personal services outside the United States approved and financed by the United States under the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended (other than title II of chapter II thereof unless the Secretary of Labor, upon the recommendation of the head of any department or other agency of the United States Government, determines a contract financed under a successor provision of any succes

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42 U.S.C. § 1704 — Reimbursement

**(a) Payments reimbursable; filing claim for reimbursement; regulations for payment of direct benefits** Where any employer or his insurance carrier or compensation fund pays or is required to pay benefits— (1) to any person or fund on account of injury or death of any person coming within the purview of this subchapter or chapter 11 of this title, if such injury or death arose from a war-risk hazard, which are payable under any workmen’s compensation law of the United States or of any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, or other jurisdiction; or (2) to any person by reason of any agreement outstanding on December 2, 1942 made in accordance with a contract between the United States and any contractor therewith to pay benefits with respect to the death of any employee of such contractor occurring under circumstances not entitling such person to benefits under any workmen’s compensation law or to pay benefits with respect to the failure of the United States or its contractor to furnish transportation upon the completion of the employment of any employee of such contractor to his home or to the place where he was employed; or (3) to any person by reason of an agreement approved or authorized by the United States under which a contractor with the United States has agreed to pay workmen’s compensation benefits or benefits in the nature of workmen’s compensation benefits to an injured employee or his dependents on account of detention by a hostile force or person or on account of injury or death arising from a war-risk hazard; such employer, carrier, or fund shall be entitled to be reimbursed for all benefits so paid or payable, including funeral and burial expenses, medical, hospital, or other similar costs for treatment and care; and reasonable and nec

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42 U.S.C. § 1705 — Receipt of workmen’s compensation benefits

**(a) Receipt of benefits under other provisions** No benefits shall be paid or furnished under the provisions of this subchapter for injury or death to any person who recovers or receives workmen’s compensation benefits for the same injury or death under any other law of the United States, or under the law of any State, Territory, possession, foreign country, or other jurisdiction, or benefits in the nature of workmen’s compensation benefits payable under an agreement approved or authorized by the United States pursuant to which a contractor with the United States has undertaken to provide such benefits. **(b) Lien and right of recovery against compensation payable under other provisions** The Secretary shall have a lien and a right of recovery, to the extent of any payments made under this subchapter on account of injury or death, against any compensation payable under any other workmen’s compensation law on account of the same injury or death; and any amounts recovered under this subsection shall be covered into the fund established under [section 8147 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section8147&num=0&edition=prelim). **(c) Receipt of wages as credit against payment under this subchapter; intervention by Secretary in proceeding to recover wages, etc.** Where any person specified in [section 1701(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1701/a&num=0&edition=prelim), or the dependent, beneficiary, or allottee of such person, receives or claims wages, payments in lieu of wages, insurance benefits for disability or loss of life (other than workmen’s compensation benefits), and the cost of such wages, payments, or benefits is provided in whole or in part by the United St

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42 U.S.C. § 1714 — Legal services

No claim for legal services or for any other services rendered in respect of a claim or award for compensation under subchapter I to or on account of any person shall be valid unless approved by the Secretary; and any claim so approved shall, in the manner and to the extent fixed by the said Secretary, be paid out of the compensation payable to the claimant; and any person who receives any fee, other consideration, or any gratuity on account of services so rendered, unless such consideration or gratuity is so approved, or who solicits employment for another person or for himself in respect of any claim or award for compensation under subchapter I shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall, for each offense, be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

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42 U.S.C. § 1715 — Finality of Secretary’s decisions

The action of the Secretary in allowing or denying any payment under subchapter I shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by any other official of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise, and the Comptroller General is authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer for payments in accordance with such action.

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42 U.S.C. § 1711 — Definitions

Page 4875 TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE § 1711 benefits under this subchapter during the period covered by such workmen’s compensation bene- fits unless the injury from a war-risk hazard in- creases his disability, and then only to the ex- tent such disability has been so increased. (Dec. 2, 1942, ch. 668, title I, § 105, 56 Stat. 1032; Dec. 23, 1943, ch. 380, title I, 57 Stat. 627.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION In subsecs. (b) and (c), ‘‘section 8147 of title 5’’ was substituted for ‘‘section 35 of such Act of September 7, 1916, as amended,’’ on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which en- acted Title 5, Government Organization and Employ- ees. AMENDMENTS 1943—Subsec. (c). Act Dec. 23, 1943, added second par. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1943 AMENDMENT Act Dec. 23, 1943, provided that: ‘‘The amendment in paragraph (a) [amending this section] shall become ef- fective as of the effective date of title I of such Act of December 2, 1942 [sections 1701 to 1706 of this title].’’ Executive Documents TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For transfer of functions to Secretary of Labor, see note set out under section 1711 of this title. § 1706. Administration (a) Rules and regulations The provisions of this subchapter shall be ad- ministered by the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary is authorized to make rules and regu- lations for the administration thereof and to contract with insurance carriers for the use of the service facilities of such carriers for the pur- pose of facilitating administration. (b) Agreements and working arrangements with other agencies, etc. In administering the provisions of this sub- chapter the Secretary may enter into agree- ments or cooperative wo

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