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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.

§ 279d. Limitation on power of Conference to impose new obligations on United States

Statutory text

In adopting this subchapter the Congress does so with the understanding that paragraph 2 of article XIII does not authorize the Conference of the Organization to so modify the provisions of its Constitution as to involve any new obligation for the United States.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 79–342 § 5 · 59 Stat. 529

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 279d

    (July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 5, 59 Stat. 530.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 5, 59 Stat. 530.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. In adopting this joint resolution the Congress does so with the understanding that paragraph 2 of article XIII does not authorize the Conference of the Organization to so modify the provisions of its Constitution as to involve any new obligation for the United States.

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Credits

(July 31, 1945, ch. 342, § 5, 59 Stat. 530.)

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