Volume 68 · 300
Public Law 83–431
To amend the Contract Settlement Act of 1944 so as to establish a time limitation upon the filing of certain claims thereunder.
Approved June 28, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Contract Settlement Act of 1944 so as to establish a time limitation upon the filing of certain claims thereunder.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 17
of the Contract Settlement Act of 1944 is hereby amended by adding at the end of subsection (d) thereof the following: “No person shall be entitled to recover compensation, to receive a settlement of any alleged obligation, or to obtain the benefit of any amendment, confirmation, ratification, or formalization of any alleged contract or commitment under the provisions of subsection (a), (b), (c), or (d) of this section, unless such person shall, on or before one hundred and eighty days after the date of enactment of this sentence, have filed a claim therefor with the contracting agency.”
Sec. 2.
No liability shall accrue by reason of the enactment of the first section of this Act which would not otherwise have accrued.
Approved June 28, 1954.