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PUBLIC LAW 92-576-OCT. 27, 1972

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Public Law 92-576 AN ACT To amend the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Comijensation Acty and for other purposes.

October 27, 1972 [S. 2318]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may L o n g s h o r e m e n ' s and Harbor be cited as the "Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensa- workers'"compen.. sation Act tion Act Amendments of 1972" Amendments of 1972.

COVERAGE

SEC. 2. (a) Section 2(3) of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (44 Stat. 1424, 33 U.S.C. 902) is amended to read as follows: "(3) The term 'employee' means any person engaged in maritime employment, including any longshoreman or other person engaged in longshoring operations, and any harborworker including a ship repairman, shipbuilder, and shipbreaker, but such term does not include a master or member of a crew of any vessel, or any person engaged by the master to load or unload or repair any small vessel under eighteen tons net." (b) Section 2(4) of such Act is amended by striking out "(including any dry dock)" and inserting in lieu thereof "(including any adjoining pier, wharf, dry dock, terminal, building way, marine railway, or other adjoining area customarily used by an employer in loading, unloading, repairing, or building a vessel)". (c) Section 3(a) of such Act is amended by striking out "(including any dry dock) and if recovery for the disability or death through workmen's compensation proceedings may not validly be provided by State law", and inserting in lieu thereof "(including any adjoining pier, wharf, dry dock, terminal, building way, marine railway, or other adjoining area customarily used by an employer in loading, unloading, repairing, or building a vessel)".

Definitions,

44 Stat. 1426. 33 USC 9 0 3.

STUDENT BENEFITS

SEC. 3. (a) Section 2 of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act is amended by redesignating paragraph (19) as paragraph (20) and adding a new paragraph (19) as follows: "(19) The term 'student' means a person regularly pursuing a fulltime course of study or training at an institution which is— " (A) a school or college or university operated or directly supported by the United States, or by any State or local government or political'subdivision thereof, ' (B) a school or college or university which has been accredited by a State or by a State recognized or nationally recognized accrediting agency or body, " (C) a schoolor college or university not so accredited but w-hose credits are accepted, on transfer, by not less than three institutions which are so accredited, for credit on the same basis as if transferred from an institution so accredited, or " (D) an additional type of educational or training institution as defined by the Secretary, but not after he reaches the age of twenty-three or has completed four years of education beyond the high school level, except that, where his twenty-third birthday occurs during a semester or other enrollment period, he shall continue to be considered a student until the end of such semester or other enrollment period. A child shall not be deemed

Definitions.

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