Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 48 — Taiwan Relations
§ 3314. Definitions
Statutory text
For purposes of this chapter—
the term “laws of the United States” includes any statute, rule, regulation, ordinance, order, or judicial rule of decision of the United States or any political subdivision thereof; and
the term “Taiwan” includes, as the context may require, the islands of Taiwan and the Pescadores, the people on those islands, corporations and other entities and associations created or organized under the laws applied on those islands, and the governing authorities on Taiwan recognized by the United States as the Republic of China prior to , and any successor governing authorities (including political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities thereof).
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.
Taiwan Relations Act
Pub. L. 96–8 § 15 · 93 Stat. 14
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3314
(Pub. L. 96–8, § 15, Apr. 10, 1979, 93 Stat. 20.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–8, § 15, Apr. 10, 1979, 93 Stat. 20.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 15. definitions For purposes of this Act— (1) the term “laws of the United States” includes any statute, rule, regulation, ordinance, order, or judicial rule of decision of the United States or any political subdivision thereof; and (2) the term “Taiwan” includes, as the context may require, the islands of Taiwan and the Pescadores, the people on those islands, corporations and other entities and associations created or organized under the laws applied on those islands, and the governing authorities on Taiwan recognized by the United States as the Republic of China prior to January 1, 1979, and any successor governing authorities (including political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities thereof).
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective as of , see section 18 of Pub. L. 96–8, set out as a note under section 3301 of this title.