Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 12 — Compensation for Injury, Death, or Detention of Employees of Contractors with United States Outside United States
§ 1712. Disqualification from benefits
Statutory text
No person convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction of any subversive act against the United States or any of its Allies, committed after the declaration by the President on , of the national emergency, shall be entitled to compensation or other benefits under subchapter I, nor shall any compensation be payable with respect to his death or detention under said subchapter, and upon indictment or the filing of an information charging the commission of any such subversive act, all such compensation or other benefits shall be suspended and remain suspended until acquittal or withdrawal of such charge, but upon conviction thereof or upon death occurring prior to a final disposition thereof, all such payments and all benefits under said subchapter shall be forfeited and terminated. If the charge is withdrawn, or there is an acquittal, all such compensation withheld shall be paid to the person or persons entitled thereto.
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. 77–668 · 56 Stat. 1039
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1712
(Dec. 2, 1942, ch. 668, title II, § 202, 56 Stat. 1034.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Dec. 2, 1942, ch. 668, title II, § 202, 56 Stat. 1034.)
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Executive Documents
National Emergency Declared on May 27, 1941
The national emergency declared by the President on , by Proc. No. 2487, 6 F.R. 2617, 55 Stat. 1647, was terminated by Proc. No. 2974, , 17 F.R. 3813, 66 Stat. c31, set out as a note preceding section 1 of Title 50, War and National Defense.
Credits
(Dec. 2, 1942, ch. 668, title II, § 202, 56 Stat. 1034.)