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Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
2734b(a) 2734b(b) 2734b(c)
2734b(d) | 31:224i–3. 31:224i–4. 31:224i–2 (proviso, less applicability to 31:224i–2). 31:224i–5 (less applicability to 31:224i–2). | Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1152, §§ 1 (proviso, less applicability to § 1), 2, 3, 4 (less applicability to § 1), 68 Stat. 1006, 1007. |
In subsection (a), the following omissions as surplusage are made: “the terms of” and “now or may hereafter be”. The following substitutions are made: “country” for “government”; “in the United States, or a Territory, Commonwealth, or possession” for “within the territory of the United States”; “under” for “in accordance with”; “upon which they are based were the acts or omissions of” for “were performed”.
In subsection (b), the following substitutions are made: “under this section” for “asserted under section 224i–3 of this title”; “the dispute” for “such disputed question or questions”; “under” for “in accordance with the terms of”; and the last sentence for the last sentence of 31:224i–4. The following omissions as surplusage are made: “of a civilian employee or military personnel of a foreign country” and “of the armed forces for such party”.
In subsection (c), the word “act” is substituted for the word “action”.
In subsection (d), the words “under this section” are substituted for the words “by the United States with respect to a settlement, award, or compromise made pursuant to section 224i–2 to 224i–5 of this title”. The words “which appropriations are authorized” are omitted as unnecessary.
1990—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 101–510 substituted “as provided in section 2732 of this title” for “for that purpose”.
1976—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94–390 substituted provisions authorizing claims, for which another armed force is legally responsible under applicable United States law, to be prosecuted against the United States or settled by the United States in accordance with an international agreement providing for the settlement or adjudication by the United States under its laws and regulations as if the acts or omissions upon which the claims are based were of a member or a civilian employee of an armed force of the United States, for provisions authorizing claims to be prosecuted against the United States or settled by the United States by adjudication by the United States under its laws and regulations as if the acts or omissions upon which the claims are based were the acts or omissions in the performance of official duty of a civilian employee or a member of an armed force.