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[CITE: 5USC8143a]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart G--Insurance and Annuities
 
               CHAPTER 81--COMPENSATION FOR WORK INJURIES
 
                         SUBCHAPTER I--GENERALLY
 
Sec. 8143a. Members of the National Teacher Corps

    Subject to the provisions of this section, this subchapter applies 
to a member of the National Teacher Corps. In administering this 
subchapter for a member covered by this section--
        (1) ``performance of duty'' does not include an act of a member 
    while--
            (A) on authorized leave; or
            (B) absent from his assigned post of duty, except while 
        participating in an activity authorized by or under the 
        direction or supervision of the Commissioner of Education; and

        (2) In computing compensation for disability or death, the 
    monthly pay of a member is deemed his actual pay or that received at 
    the minimum rate for GS-6, whichever is greater.

(Added Pub. L. 90-83, Sec. 1(66)(A), Sept. 11, 1967, 81 Stat. 212.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                    Source (Statutes at
 Section of title 5       Source (U.S. Code)               Large)
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8143a..............  20: 1105(b).                  Nov. 8, 1965, Pub. L.
                                                    89-329, Sec.
                                                    515(b), 79 Stat.
                                                    1257.
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    The words ``a member of the National Teacher Corps'' are substituted 
for ``such members'' on authority of 20 U.S.C. 1102, 1105(a). In 
paragraph (1)(B), the words ``Commissioner of Education'' are 
substituted for ``Commissioner'' on authority of 20 U.S.C. 1141(f). In 
paragraph (2), the words ``at the minimum rate for GS-6'' are 
substituted for ``under the entrance salary for grade 6,'' and the 
reference to the General Schedule of the Classification Act of 1949 is 
omitted as unnecessary.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Commissioner of Education of Department of Health, 
Education, and Welfare transferred to Secretary of Education by section 
3441(a)(1) of Title 20, Education.
