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[CITE: 5USC8136]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart G--Insurance and Annuities
 
               CHAPTER 81--COMPENSATION FOR WORK INJURIES
 
                         SUBCHAPTER I--GENERALLY
 
Sec. 8136. Initial payments outside the United States

    If an employee is injured outside the continental United States, the 
Secretary of Labor may arrange and provide for initial payment of 
compensation and initial furnishing of other benefits under this 
subchapter by an employee or agent of the United States designated by 
the Secretary for that purpose in the locality in which the employee was 
employed or the injury incurred.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 549.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                    Revised Statutes and
     Derivation                U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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                     5 U.S.C. 793 (2d sentence of  July 29, 1942, ch.
                      4th par.)                     533 (2d sentence),
                                                    56 Stat. 725.
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    The word ``continental'' is added on authority of the last sentence 
of the fifth paragraph of former section 793, which is carried into 
section 8137.
    Administration of this subchapter was transferred to the Secretary 
of Labor by section 1 of 1950 Reorg. Plan. No. 19, 64 Stat. 1271 (see 
section 8145).
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.
