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[CITE: 42USC1652]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
CHAPTER 11--COMPENSATION FOR DISABILITY OR DEATH TO PERSONS EMPLOYED AT 
          MILITARY, AIR, AND NAVAL BASES OUTSIDE UNITED STATES
 
Sec. 1652. Computation of benefits; application to aliens and 
        nonnationals
        
    (a) The minimum limit on weekly compensation for disability, 
established by section 906(b) of title 33, and the minimum limit on the 
average weekly wages on which death benefits are to be computed, 
established by section 909(e) of title 33, shall not apply in computing 
compensation and death benefits under this chapter.
    (b) Compensation for permanent total or permanent partial disability 
under section 908(c)(21) of title 33, or for death under this chapter to 
aliens and nonnationals of the United States not residents of the United 
States or Canada shall be in the same amount as provided for residents, 
except that dependents in any foreign country shall be limited to 
surviving wife and child or children, or if there be no surviving wife 
or child or children, to surviving father or mother whom the employee 
has supported, either wholly or in part, for the period of one year 
immediately prior to the date of the injury, and except that the 
Secretary of Labor may, at his option or upon the application of the 
insurance carrier shall, commute all future installments of compensation 
to be paid to such aliens or nonnationals of the United States by paying 
or causing to be paid to them one-half of the commuted amount of such 
future installments of compensation as determined by the Secretary.

(Aug. 16, 1941, ch. 357, Sec. 2, 55 Stat. 623; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 2, 
Sec. 3, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7873, 60 Stat. 1095; 1950 Reorg. 
Plan No. 19, Sec. 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3178, 64 Stat. 1271; 
Pub. L. 98-426, Sec. 27(d)(2), Sept. 28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1654.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 98-426 substituted references to 
sections of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act for 
sections of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, 
which references have been translated to sections of title 33, thus 
requiring no change in text.


                    Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 98-426 effective Sept. 28, 1984, see section 
28(e)(1) of Pub. L. 98-426, set out as a note under section 901 of Title 
33, Navigation and Navigable Waters.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Secretary of Labor'' and ``Secretary'' substituted for ``Federal 
Security Administrator'' and ``Administrator'', respectively, in subsec. 
(b), pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 19 of 1950, Sec. 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 
15 F.R. 3178, 64 Stat. 1271, which transferred functions of Federal 
Security Administrator to Secretary of Labor.
    Previously, ``Federal Security Administrator'' and ``Administrator'' 
substituted for ``United States Employees' Compensation Commission'' and 
``Commission'' pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1946, Sec. 3, eff. July 
16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7873, 60 Stat. 1095, which abolished United States 
Employees' Compensation Commission and transferred its functions to 
Federal Security Administrator.
