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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.

§ 290d. Enactment of specific legislation by Congress

Statutory text

In adopting this subchapter, the Congress does so with the understanding that nothing in the Constitution of the World Health Organization in any manner commits the United States to enact any specific legislative program regarding any matters referred to in said Constitution.

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. 80–469 § 5 · 62 Stat. 441

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 290d

    (June 14, 1948, ch. 469, § 5, 62 Stat. 442.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 14, 1948, ch. 469, § 5, 62 Stat. 442.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. In adopting this joint resolution, the Congress does so with the understanding that nothing in the Constitution of the World Health Organization in any manner commits the United States to enact any specific legislative program regarding any matters referred to in said Constitution.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 14, 1948, ch. 469, § 5, 62 Stat. 442.)

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