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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.

§ 290k. Acceptance of membership

Statutory text

The President is hereby authorized to accept membership for the United States in the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Agency”) provided for by the Convention Establishing the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Convention”) deposited in the archives of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Bank”).

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. Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1988

    Pub. L. 100–202 § 101(e)(tI) · 101 Stat. 1329

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 290k

    (Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(e) [title I], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–131, 1329–134.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(e) [title I], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–131, 1329–134.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 101. During the current fiscal year, applicable appropriations and funds available to the Department of Commerce shall be available for the activities specified in the Act of October 26, 1949 (15 U.S.C. 1514), to the extent and in the manner prescribed by said Act, and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3324, may be used for advance payments not otherwise authorized only upon the certification of officials designated by the Secretary that such payments are in the public interest.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is based on section 403 of title IV of H.R. 3750, One Hundredth Congress, as introduced , and enacted into law by Pub. L. 100–202.

Section 402 of title IV of H.R. 3750, as introduced , and as enacted into law by section 101(e) [title I] of Pub. L. 100–202, provided that: “This title [enacting this subchapter] shall be codified as subchapter XXVI of chapter 7 of title 22 of the United States Code.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Short Title

Section 401 of title IV of H.R. 3750, as introduced , and as enacted into law by Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(e) [title I], , 101 Stat. 1329–131, 1329–134, provided that: “This title [enacting this subchapter] may be cited as the ‘Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Act’.”

Credits

(Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(e) [title I], , 101 Stat. 1329–131, 1329–134.)

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