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PUBLIC LAW 538--JULY 14, 1952

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without prejudice and the right of the parties to pursue such other remedies as are provided by law shall not be affected thereby. (b) I n any such terminated appeal, timely initiated in the Appeal Board, where the period for pursuit of any other remedy pursuant to section 13(b)(2) of the Contract Settlement Act of 1944 shall have expired or would expire within sixty days after the effective date of the abolition of the Appeal Board, the period within which proceedj ings may be initiated in accordance with the said section shall be extended to sixty days after said effective date. (c) Effective thirty days after the enactment of this Act no further appeals or submitted disputes shall be accepted for determination by said Appeal Board. (d) Where an attempt is erroneously made to file an appeal with the Appeal Board after the time limited therefor by section 1(c) of this Act but prior to the effective date of the abolition of the Appeal Board, said Board shall forthwith return the papers to the person therein named as appellant together with a notice in writing that, pursuant to the terms of section 1(c) of this Act, it can no longer accept such an appeal. Where such an attempt is made in good faith and the appeal would, except for the provisions of section 1(c) of this Act, have been timely and the period for pursuit of any other remedy pursuant to section 13(b)(2) of the Contract Settlement Act of 1944 expires or would expire prior to the expiration of sixty days after the receipt of such notice, the period within which proper proceedings may be initiated in accordance with said section 13(b) (2) shall be extended to sixty days after the receipt of such notice. Approved July 14, 1952.

Public Law 538 Jiliy 14. 1952. [S. 2690]

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CHAPTER 740

^^ ^^"^ TQ amend the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, to make unlawful certain practices of ticket agents engaged in selling air transportation, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Civil Aeronau- United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of amlndiS^nts. ^^^^' the Civil Aerouautics Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by renum62 Stat.' 493! bering paragraph (32) as paragraph (33) and by inserting therein 49 USC 401." a new paragraph (32) reading as follows: "(32) 'Ticket agent' means any person, not an air carrier or a foreign air carrier and not a bona fide employee of an air carrier or foreign air carrier, who, as principal or agent, sells or offers for sale any air transportation, or negotiates for, or holds himself out by solicitation, advertisement, or otherwise as one who sells, provides, furnishes, contracts or arranges for, such transportation." 49 USC 491. SEC. 2. Section 411 of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "METHODS OF COMPErriTION

"SEC. 411. The Board may, upon its own initiative or upon complaint by any air carrier, foreign air carrier, or ticket agent, if it considers that such action by it would be in the interest of the public, investigate and determine whether any air carrier, foreign air carrier, or ticket agent has been or is engaged in unfair or deceptive pactices or unfair methods of competition in air transportation or the sale thereof. If the Board shall find, after notice and hearing, that

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