[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR61.4]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF WORKERS'COMPENSATION PROGRAMS,DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 61--CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATION UNDER THE WAR HAZARDS COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 61.4  Definitions and use of terms.

    For the purpose of this part--
    (a) The Act means the War Hazards Compensation Act, 42 U.S.C. 1701 
et seq., as amended.
    (b) Office or OWCP means the Office of Workers' Compensation 
Programs, Employment Standards Administration, United States Department 
of Labor.
    (c) Contractor with the United States includes any contractor, 
subcontractor or subordinate subcontractor.

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    (d) Carrier means any payer of benefits for which reimbursement is 
requested under the Act, and includes insurance carriers, self-insured 
employers and compensation funds.
    (e) War-risk hazard means any hazard arising during a war in which 
the United States is engaged; during an armed conflict in which the 
United States is engaged, whether or not war has been declared; or 
during a war or armed conflict between military forces of any origin, 
occurring within any country in which a person covered by the Act is 
serving; from--
    (1) The discharge of any missile (including liquids and gas) or the 
use of any weapon, explosive, or other noxious thing by a hostile force 
or person or in combating an attack or an imagined attack by a hostile 
force or person;
    (2) Action of a hostile force or person, including rebellion or 
insurrection against the United States or any of its allies;
    (3) The discharge or explosion of munitions intended for use in 
connection with a war or armed conflict with a hostile force or person 
(except with respect to employees of a manufacturer, processor, or 
transporter of munitions during the manufacture, processing, or 
transporting of munitions, or while stored on the premises of the 
manufacturer, processor, or transporter);
    (4) The collision of vessels in convoy or the operation of vessels 
or aircraft without running lights or without other customary peacetime 
aids to navigation; or
    (5) The operation of vessels or aircraft in a zone of hostilities or 
engaged in war activities.
    (f) Hostile force or person means any nation, any subject of a 
foreign nation, or any other person serving a foreign nation--
    (1) Engaged in a war against the United States or any of its allies;
    (2) Engaged in armed conflict, whether or not war has been declared, 
against the United States or any of its allies; or
    (3) Engaged in a war or armed conflict between military forces of 
any origin in any country in which a person covered by the Act is 
serving.
    (g) Allies means any nation with which the United States is engaged 
in a common military effort or with which the United States has entered 
into a common defensive military alliance.
    (h) War activities includes activities directly relating to military 
operations.
    (i) Continental United States means the States and the District of 
Columbia.
    (j) Injury means injury resulting from a war-risk hazard, as defined 
in this section, whether or not such injury occurred in the course of 
the person's employment, and includes any disease proximately resulting 
from a war-risk hazard.
    (k) Death means death resulting from an injury, as defined in this 
section.
    (l) The terms compensation, physician, and medical, surgical, and 
hospital services and supplies when used in subparts D and E are 
construed and applied as defined in the Federal Employees' Compensation 
Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 8101 et seq.).
    (m) The terms disability, wages, child, grandchild, brother, sister, 
parent, widow, widower, student, adoption or adopted are construed and 
applied as defined in the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation 
Act, as amended (35 U.S.C. 901 et seq.).