[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR32.1]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 32--MEDICAL CARE FOR PERSONS WITH HANSEN'S DISEASE AND OTHER PERSONS IN EMERGENCIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 32.1  Meaning of terms.

    All terms not defined herein shall have the same meaning as given 
them in the Act.
    (a) Act means the Public Health Service Act, approved July 1, 1944, 
58 Stat. 682, as amended;
    (b) Service means the Public Health Service;
    (c) Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and 
any other officer or employee of the Department of Health and Human 
Services to whom the authority involved may have been delegated.
    (d) Authorizing official means Service officers or employees duly 
designated by the Director, Bureau of Health Care Delivery and 
Assistance, to authorize and provide care and treatment to beneficiaries 
at Service expense.

[40 FR 25816, June 19, 1975, as amended at 48 FR 10318, Mar. 11, 1983]

                              Beneficiaries