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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

§ 1715. Finality of Secretary’s decisions

Statutory text

The action of the Secretary in allowing or denying any payment under subchapter I shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by any other official of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise, and the Comptroller General is authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer for payments in accordance with such action.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 77–668 · 56 Stat. 1039

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1715

    (Dec. 2, 1942, ch. 668, title II, § 205, 56 Stat. 1034.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Dec. 2, 1942, ch. 668, title II, § 205, 56 Stat. 1034.)

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Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions to Secretary of Labor, see note set out under section 1711 of this title.

Credits

(Dec. 2, 1942, ch. 668, title II, § 205, 56 Stat. 1034.)

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