[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 28, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 28CFR32.4]

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                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                    CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 32_PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS' DEATH, DISABILITY, AND EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE 
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec. 32.4  Terms; construction, severability.

    (a) The first three provisions of 1 U.S.C. 1 (rules of construction) 
shall apply.
    (b) If benefits are denied to any individual pursuant to the Act, at 
42 U.S.C. 3796a(4), or otherwise because his actions were a substantial 
contributing factor to the death of the public safety officer, such 
individual shall be presumed irrebuttably, for all purposes, not to have 
survived the officer.
    (c) Any provision of this part held to be invalid or unenforceable 
by its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be 
construed so as to give it the maximum effect permitted by law, unless 
such holding shall be one of utter invalidity or unenforceability, in 
which event such provision shall be deemed severable herefrom and shall 
not affect the remainder hereof or the application of such provision to 
other persons not similarly situated or to other, dissimilar 
circumstances.