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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 52 — Foreign Service

§ 3929a. Abolishment of Inspector General of Department of State and Foreign Service

Statutory text

Notwithstanding section 3929 of this title, the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service is hereby abolished.

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. Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987

    Pub. L. 99–93 title I § 150(b) · 99 Stat. 405

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3929a

    Pub. L. 99–93, title I, § 150(b), Aug. 16, 1985, 99 Stat. 427

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 99–93, title I, § 150(b), Aug. 16, 1985, 99 Stat. 427

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (b) Limitation on Authority of Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service.— Notwithstanding section 209 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3929), any individual appointed to or serving in the capacity of the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service shall be designated as the “Program Inspector General” and may only perform such functions (utilizing appropriate authority under such section) as may be necessary for the purposes of carrying out subsection (g) of such section.

  2. Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986

    Pub. L. 99–399 title IV § 413(c) · 100 Stat. 853

    Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 3929a

    Pub. L. 99–399 substituted provision abolishing the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service for provision limiting the authority of the Inspector General to such functions as necessary to carry out section 3929(g) of this title

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 99–399 substituted provision abolishing the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service for provision limiting the authority of the Inspector General to such functions as necessary to carry out section 3929(g) of this title.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (c) Abolishment of the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service— Section 150(b) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (22 U.S.C. 3929a), is amended to read as follows: “(b) Abolishment of the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service— Notwithstanding section 209 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3929), the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service is hereby abolished.”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987, and not as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.

Another subsec. (c) of section 413 of Pub. L. 99–399 is classified to section 4861(c) of this title.

Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–399 substituted provision abolishing the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service for provision limiting the authority of the Inspector General to such functions as necessary to carry out section 3929(g) of this title.

Credits

1985–1986 · 2 acts
  1. 1985Pub. L. 99–93, title I, § 150(b), , 99 Stat. 427
  2. 1986Pub. L. 99–399, title IV, § 413(c), , 100 Stat. 868.
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(Pub. L. 99–93, title I, § 150(b), , 99 Stat. 427; Pub. L. 99–399, title IV, § 413(c), , 100 Stat. 868.)

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