Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 18 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation
§ 949. Effect of unconstitutionality
Statutory text
If any part of this chapter is adjudged unconstitutional by the courts, and such adjudication has the effect of invalidating any payment of compensation under this chapter, the period intervening between the time the injury was sustained and the time of such adjudication shall not be computed as a part of the time prescribed by law for the commencement of any action against the employer in respect of such injury; but the amount of any compensation paid under this chapter on account of such injury shall be deducted from the amount of damages awarded in such action in respect of such injury.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 69–509 § 50 · 44 Stat. 1424
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 949
Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 50 formerly § 49, 44 Stat. 1446
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 50 formerly § 49, 44 Stat. 1446
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Credits
1927–1972 · 2 acts
- 1927Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 50 formerly § 49, 44 Stat. 1446
- 1972renumbered § 50, Pub. L. 92–576, § 19, , 86 Stat. 1263.
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(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 50 formerly § 49, 44 Stat. 1446; renumbered § 50, Pub. L. 92–576, § 19, , 86 Stat. 1263.)