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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain maritime employments, and for other purposes · Sec. 50

Sec. 50. effect of unconstitutionality

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## Sec. 50 effect of unconstitutionality If any part of this Act is adjudged unconstitutional by the courts, and such adjudication has the effect of invalidating any payment of compensation under this Act, the period intervening between the time the injury was sustained and the time of such adjudication shall not be computed as a part of the timed prescribed by law for the commencement of any action against the employer in respect of such injury; but the amount of any compensation paid under this Act on account of such injury shall be deducted from the amount of damages awarded in such action in respect of such injury. **[**[33 U.S.C. 949](/us/usc/t33/s949)**]** Enacted March 4, 1927, ch. 509, sec. 49, 44 Stat. 1446; renumbered October 27, 1972, P.L. 92–576, sec. 1986 Stat. 1263.
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