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who is without fault and where adjustment or recovery would defeat
the purpose of this Act or would be against equity and good conscience.
"(c) No certifying or disbursing officer shall be held liable for any
amount certified or paid by him to any person where the adjustment
or recovery of such amount is waived under subsection (b), or where
adjustment under subsection (a) is not completed prior to the death
of all persons against whose benefits deductions are authorized."
SHORT TITLE
SEC. 207. The Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as amended,
is further amended by adding thereto at the end thereof a new section
as follows:
"SEC. 43. This Act may be cited as the 'Federal Employees' Com-
pensation Act'."
FEES
SEC. 208. Section 23 of such Act, as amended, is further amended
to read as follows:
"SEC. 23. (a) Fees or examinations made on the part of the United
States under sections 21 and 22 by physicians who are not officers or
employees of the United States and not under contract to the United
States to render medical services to its employees shall be fixed by the
Administrator. Such fees, and any sum payable to the employee under
section 21, which authorized or approved by the Administrator, shall
be paid from the Employees' Compensation Fund.
"(b) A claimant may be represented before the Administrator in
any proceeding under this Act by any person duly authorized by such
claimant. No claim for legal services or for any other services rendered
in respect of a case, claim, or award for compensation under this Act,
to or on account of any person, shall be valid unless approved by the
Administrator. Any person who receives any fee or other considera-
tion, or any gratuity on account of services so rendered, unless such
fee, consideration, or gratuity, is so approved, or who solicits employ-
ment for himself or another in respect of any case, claim, or award
for compensation under (or to be brought under) this Act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall, for each
offense, be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprison-
ment not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
"(c) If any person in proceedings before the Administrator or his
duly authorized representative disobeys or resists any lawful order or
process, or misbehaves during a hearing or so near the place thereof as
to obstruct the same, the Administrator or his duly authorized repre-
sentative shall certify the facts to the district court having jurisdiction
in the place in which he is sitting (or to the district court of the United
States for the District of Columbia if he is sitting in such district)
which shall thereupon in a summary manner hear the evidence as to
the acts complained of, and, if the evidence so warrants, punish such
person in the same manner and to the same extent as for a contempt
committed before the court, or commit such person upon the same
conditions as if the doing of the forbidden act had occurred with refer-
ence to the process of or in the presence of the court."
ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND ANNUAL REPORTS
SEC. 209. Section 33 of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act,
as amended, is further amended by designating the first two para-
graphs thereof, respectively, subsections "(a)" and "(b)" and by
adding a new subsection designated as " (c)", as follows:
"(c) In order to reduce the number of accidents and injuries among
Government officers and employees, encourage safe practices, elimi-
nate work hazards and health risks, and reduce compensable injuries,
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Nonliability.
39 Stat. 742.
5 U.S. C. §§751-793.
Ante, p. 854 et seq.
39 Stat. 747.
5 U.S. C. 773.
39 Stat. 747.
5U.S.C.§§771,
772.
Representative of
claimant.
I)sobedience, etc.,
of lawful order.
39 Stat. 749.
5U.S.C.S784.
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