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 62 STAT.] 80rH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 826-JULY 3, 1948 States, and for other purposes", approved December 2, 1942, as 56 tat. 1028. amended; or (C) a person within the purview of the Missing Persons 17,06,111. - 17 17 6 1.1 - Act of March 7, 1942 (56 Stat. 143), as amended; or (D) a regularly 50 u.- su app.- appointed, enrolled, enlisted, or inducted member of any military or i001 q.ci naval force. (b) The Commission is authorized to receive, adjudicate according Detention benefits. to law, and provide for the payment of any claim filed by, or on behalf of, any civilian American citizen for detention benefits for any period of time subsequent to December 6, 1941, during which he was held by the Imperial Japanese Government as a prisoner, internee, hostage or in any other capacity, or remained in hiding to avoid being captured or interned by such Imperial Japanese Government. (c) The detention benefit allowed to any person under the provisions Rate. of subsection (b) shall be at the rate of $60 for each calendar month during which such person was at least eighteen years of age and at the rate of $25 per month for each calendar month during which such person was less than eighteen years of age. (d) The detention benefits allowed under subsection (b) shall be ymenttodepend- allowed to the person entitled thereto, or, in the event of his death, only to the following persons: (1) Widow or dependent husband if there is no child or children of the deceased; (2) Widow or dependent husband and child or children of the deceased, one-half to the widow or dependent husband and the other half to the child or children in equal shares; and (3) Child or children of the deceased (in equal shares) if there is no widow or dependent husband. (e) Any claim allowed under the provisions of subsection (b) shall cCeritificatio of be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment out of the War Claims Fund established by section 13 of this Act, and shall be P"' p. 1247- payable by the Secretary of the Treasury to the person entitled thereto or to his legal or natural guardian if he has one. (f) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the pro- tiension flegisla visions of titles r and II of the Act entitled "An Act to provide benefits for the injury, disability, death, or enemy detention of employees of contractors with the United States, and for other purposes", approved December 2, 1942, as amended, are extended and shall apply with f48lt at l< 173- respect to the injury, disability, or death resulting from injury of a 17o, 1711-1717. civilian American citizen occurring while he was held by or in hiding from the Imperial Japanese Government, to the same extent as if such civilian American citizen were an employee within the purview of such Act of December 2, 1942, as amended. (2) For the purpose of determining the benefits extended and made bente"rminat" applicable by paragraph (1)- (A) the average weekly wage of any such civilian American citizen, whether employed, self-employed, or not employed, shall be deemed to have been $37.50; (B) the provisions of such Act shall be applicable whether or not any such civilian American citizen was employed; (C) notice of injury or death shall not be required; and limita- tion provisions with respect to the filing of claims for injury, disability, or death shall not begin to run until the date of enact- ment of this section; and (D) the monthly compensation in cases involving partial dis- ability shall be determined by the percentage the degree of partial disability bears to total disability and shall not be determined with respect to the extent of loss of wage earning capacity. (3) The following provisions of such Act of December 2, 1942, as l 8at*. l aa. 11,l. amended, shall not apply in the case of such civilian American citizens: 42 U. S. C. 1 1701 Section 101 (b), section 104, and section 105. (b). 14. 1706. 1243

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