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[76 Stat. 1112]
PUBLIC LAW 87-000—MMMM. DD, 1962
[76 Stat. 1112]

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22 USC 164li. 22 USC 1641b.

Regulations.

60 Stat. 128. 50 USC app. 1751 note.

PUBLIC LAW 87-846-OCT. 22, 1962

[76 STAT.

account of any award shall exceed the unpaid balance of such award. Payments heretofore made under section 310 of title III of the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, on awards made against the Government of Hungary under section 303(1) of title III of the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, and recertified under subsection (b) of section 209, shall be considered as payments under this paragraph and no payment shall be made on any recertified award until the percentage of distribution on awards made under section 202 exceeds the corresponding percentage of distribution on such recertified award: Provided, That no payment made on awards recertified under subsection (b) of section 209 shall exceed 40 per centum of the amount of the award recertified. "(b) Such payments, and applications for such payments, shall be made in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. "(c) For the purpose of making any such payments, other than under section 213(a)(1), an 'award' shall be deemed to mean the aggregate of all awards certified for payment in favor of the same claimant. " (d) If any person to whom any payment is to be made pursuant to this title is deceased or is under a legal disability, payment shall be made to his legal representative, except that if any payment to be made is not over $1,000 and there is no qualified executor or administrator, payment may be made to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General to be entitled thereto, without the necessity of compliance with the requirements of law with respect to the administration of estates. "(e) Payment on account of any award pursuant to this title shall not, unless such payment is for the full amount of the award, extinguish any rights against any foreign government for the unpaid balance of the aw'ard. "(f) Payments made under this section on account of any award for loss, damage, or destruction occurring in the Commonw^ealth of the Philippines shall not exceed the amount paid on account of awards in the same amount under the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946. uFEES o r ATTORNEYS AND AGENTS

"SEC. 214. No remuneration on account of services rendered on behalf of any claimant in connection with any claim filed with the Commission under this title shall exceed 10 per centum (or such lesser per centum as may be fixed by the Commission with respect to any class of claims) of the total amount paid pursuant to any award certified under the provisions of this title on account of such claim. Any agreement to the contrary shall be unlawful and void. Whoever, in the United States or elsewhere, demands or receives, on account of services so rendered, any remuneration in excess of the maximum permitted by this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both. "APPLICATION o r OTHER LAWS

22 USC 1621 note. 50 USC app. 2001, 2010. 22 USC 1626,

"SEC. 215. To the extent they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this title, the following provisions of title I of this Act and title I of the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, shall apply to this title: The first sentence of subsection (b) of section 2, all of subsection (c) of section 2 and section 11 of title I of this Act, and subsections (c), (d), (e), and (f) of section 7 of the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended.