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.
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.)