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[CITE: 42USC1653]

 
                 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. 1653. Compensation districts; judicial proceedings

    (a) The Secretary of Labor is authorized to extend compensation 
districts established under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' 
Compensation Act, approved March 4, 1927 (44 Stat. 1424) [33 U.S.C. 901 
et seq.], or to establish new compensation districts, to include any 
area to which this chapter applies; and to assign to each such district 
one or more deputy commissioners, as the Secretary may deem necessary.
    (b) Judicial proceedings provided under sections 18 and 21 of the 
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act [33 U.S.C. 918, 921] in 
respect to a compensation order made pursuant to this chapter shall be 
instituted in the United States district court of the judicial district 
wherein is located the office of the deputy commissioner whose 
compensation order is involved if his office is located in a judicial 
district, and if not so located, such judicial proceedings shall be 
instituted in the judicial district nearest the base at which the injury 
or death occurs.

(Aug. 16, 1941, ch. 357, Sec. 3, 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.)

                       References in Text

    The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, referred to in 
text, is act Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, 44 Stat. 1424, as amended, which is 
classified generally to chapter 18 (Sec. 901 et seq.) of Title 33, 
Navigation and Navigable Waters. For complete classification of this Act 
to the Code, see section 901 of Title 33 and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 98-426 substituted ``Longshore and 
Harbor Workers' Compensation Act'' for ``Longshoremen's and Harbor 
Workers' Compensation Act''.


                    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. 
(a), 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.


                            Cross References

    Establishment of compensation districts under Longshore and Harbor 
Workers' Compensation Act, see section 939 of Title 33, Navigation and 
Navigable Waters.
