Volume 75
Public Law 87–366
To amend sections 1 and 3 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended.
Approved October 4, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend sections 1 and 3 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 (b) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (56 Stat.
248), is amended by adding thereto a new paragraph (6) to read as follows:
“(6) A domestic partnership, association, corporation, organization, or other combination of individuals, supervised, directed, controlled, or financed, in whole or in substantial part, by any foreign government or foreign political party;”.
Sec. 2.
Section 3(a) of such Act is amended to read as follows:
“(d) Any person engaging or agreeing to engage only in private and nonpolitical financial or mercantile activities in furtherance of the bona fide trade or commerce of such foreign principal or in the soliciting or collecting of funds and contributions within the United States to be used only for medical aid and assistance, or for food and clothing to relieve human suffering, if such solicitation or collection of funds and contributions is in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Act of November 4, 1939, as amended (54 Stat.
48), and such rules and regulations as may be prescribed thereunder;”.
Approved October 4, 1961.