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PUBLIC LAW 85-608-AUG. 8, 1958

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Public Law 85-608 August 8, 1958 [H.R. 12140]

AN ACT To amend the Act of December 2, 1942, and the Act of August 16, 1941, relating to injury, disability, and death resulting from war-risk hazards and from employment, suffered by employees of contractors of the United States, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives United States of America in Congress assembled,

of the

TITLE I—AMENDMENTS TO THE W A E HAZARDS COMPENSATION ACT War ris k hazards • 42 USC 1701.

Contract ices.

Civilian ployees.

Welfare service eoiployees.

N o n a p plicability.

42 USC 1702.

42 USC 1711.

Definitions.

SEC. 101. (a) Clause (2) of section 101(a) of the Act of December 2, 1942 (ch. 668, 56 Stat. 1028), as amended, is amended to read as follows: "(2) to any person engaged by the United States under a contract for his personal services outside the continental United States or in Alaska or the Canal Zone; or". (b) Clause (3) of section 101(a) of that Act is amended to read as follows: "(3) to any person employed outside the continental United States or in Alaska or the Canal Zone 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". (c) Section 101(a) of that Act is amended by deleting the period at the end of clause (4), inserting the words "; or" in place thereof, and adding the following new clause: "(5) to any person employed or otherwise engaged for personal services outside the continental United States or in Alaska or the Canal Zone by an American employer providing welfare or similar services for the benefit of the Armed Forces pursuant to appropriate authorization by the Secretary of Defense." (d) Section 101(d) of that Act is amended to read as follows: " (d) The provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of any person (1) whose residence is at or in the vicinity of the place of his employment, and (2) who is not living there solely by virtue of the exigencies of his employment, unless his injury or death resulting from injury occurs or his detention begins while in the course of his employment, or (3) who is a prisoner of war or a protected person under the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and who is detained or utilized by the United States." SEC. 102. Section 102(a) of the Act of December 2, 1942 (ch. 668, 56 Stat. 1031), as amended, is amended by striking the last proviso. This amendment shall not affect benefits adjudicated thereunder prior to the enactment of this Act. SEC. 103. (a) Section 201(b) of the Act of December 2, 1942 (ch. 668, 56 Stat. 1033), as amended, is amended by changing that part of the section which precedes the numbered clauses to read as follows: " (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

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