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[CITE: 5USC8108]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart G--Insurance and Annuities
 
               CHAPTER 81--COMPENSATION FOR WORK INJURIES
 
                         SUBCHAPTER I--GENERALLY
 
Sec. 8108. Reduction of compensation for subsequent injury to 
        same member
        
    The period of compensation payable under the schedule in section 
8107(c) of this title is reduced by the period of compensation paid or 
payable under the schedule for an earlier injury if--
        (1) compensation in both cases is for disability of the same 
    member or function or different parts of the same member or function 
    or for disfigurement; and
        (2) the Secretary of Labor finds that compensation payable for 
    the later disability in whole or in part would duplicate the 
    compensation payable for the preexisting disability.

In such a case, compensation for disability continuing after the 
scheduled period starts on expiration of that period as reduced under 
this section.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 538; Pub. L. 90-83, Sec. 1(51), 
Sept. 11, 1967, 81 Stat. 210.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
                                1966 Act
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                                                    Revised Statutes and
     Derivation                U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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                     5 U.S.C. 755(c).              Oct. 14, 1949, ch.
                                                    691, Sec.  104
                                                    ``Sec. 5(c)'', 63
                                                    Stat. 857.
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    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

                                1967 Act
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                                                    Source (Statutes at
 Section of title 5        Source (U.S.Code)               Large)
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8108...............  5 App.: 755(c).               July 4, 1966, Pub. L.
                                                    89-488, Sec.  2(c),
                                                    80 Stat. 252.
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                 Personnel Not Affected by 1967 Increase

    Increases authorized under amendment by Pub. L. 90-83 not applicable 
to specified personnel, see section 7 of Pub. L. 90-83, set out as a 
note under section 8103 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 8115 of this title; title 18 
section 1921.
