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PUBLIC LAW 93-460-OCT. 20, 1974

[88 STAT.

Public Law 93-460 October 20, 1974 [H. R.13261]

International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, amendments. 22 USC 1621 note. Claims funds. 22 USC 1641a. 24 UST 522. 22 USC 1641b.

Claims of U.S. nationals.

Filing of c l a i m s, time limit; notice. 22 USC 1641e.

P u b l i c a t i o n in Federal Register.

P u b l i c a t i o n in Federal Register.

Payment of awards. 22 USC 16411.

AN ACT To amend the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, to provide for the timely determination of certain claims of American nationals settled by the United States-Hungarian Claims Agreement of March 6, 1973, and for other purposes.

Be is enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, is further amended as follows: (1) Section 302, title III, is amended by adding a new subsection (c) as follows: '•(c) The Secretary of the Treasury shall cover into the Hungarian Claims Fund, such sums as may be paid to the United States by the Government of Hungary pursuant to the terms of the United StatesHungarian Claims Agreement of March 6, 1973.". (2) Section 303, title III, is further amended by striking out the word "and" at the end of paragraph (3), and by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (4) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the word "and". (3) Section 303, title III, is further amended by adding a new paragraph (5) as follows: "(5) pay effective compensation for the nationalization, compulsory liquidation, or other taking of property of nationals of the United States in Hungary, between August 9, 1955, and the date the United States-Hungarian Claims Agreement of March 6, 1973, enters into force.". (4) Section 306, title III, is further amended— (A) by inserting in subsection (a), immediately before "this title", the following: "paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section 303of"; and (B) by adding at the end thereof the following: "(c) Within thirty days after enactment of this subsection, or thirty days after enactment of legislation making appropriations to the Commission for payment of administrative expenses incurred in carrying out its functions under paragraph (5) of section 303, whichever date is later, the Commission shall publish in the Federal Register the time when, and the limit of time within which, claims may be filed with the Commission under paragraph (5) of section 303, which limit shall not be more than six months after such publication. " (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any national of the United States who was mailed notice by any department or agency of the Government of the United States with respect to filing a claim against the Government of Hungary arising out of any of the failures referred to in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section 303 of this title, and who did not receive the notice as the result of administrative error in placing a nonexistent address on the notice, may file with the Commission a claim under any such paragraph. The Commission shall publish in the Federal Register, within thirty days after enactment of this paragraph, when the limit of time within which any such claim may be filed with the Commission, which limit shall not be more than six months after such publication.". (5) Section 310, title III, is further amended by adding at the end of subsection (a) thereof a new paragraph (7), as follows: " (7)(A) Except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (D), whenever the Commission is authorized to settle claims by enactment of paragraph (5) of section 303 of this title with respect to Hungary, no further payments shall be authorized by the Secretary of the

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