§ 2017f. Consolidated awards  


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  • With respect to any claim which, at the time of the award, is vested in persons other than the person by whom the loss was sustained, the Commission may issue a consolidated award in favor of all claimants then entitled thereto, which award shall indicate the respective interests of such claimant therein; and all such claimants shall participate, in proportion to their indicated interests, in the payments authorized by this title [sections 2017 to 2017p of this Appendix] in all respects as if the award had been in favor of a single person.

(July 3, 1948, ch. 826, title II, § 207, as added Pub. L. 87–846, title I, § 103, Oct. 22, 1962, 76 Stat. 1110.)