Title 6 — Domestic Security
Part B · Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization
§ 557. Reference
Statutory text
With respect to any function transferred by or under this chapter (including under a reorganization plan that becomes effective under section 542 of this title) and exercised on or after the effective date of this chapter, reference in any other Federal law to any department, commission, or agency or any officer or office the functions of which are so transferred shall be deemed to refer to the Secretary, other official, or component of the Department to which such function is so transferred.
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.
Homeland Security Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–296 title XV § 1517 · 116 Stat. 2135
Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 557
(Pub. L. 107–296, title XV, § 1517, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2311.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–296, title XV, § 1517, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2311.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 1517. REFERENCE. With respect to any function transferred by or under this Act (including under a reorganization plan that becomes effective under section 1502) and exercised on or after the effective date of this Act, reference in any other Federal law to any department, commission, or agency or any officer or office the functions of which are so transferred shall be deemed to refer to the Secretary, other official, or component of the Department to which such function is so transferred.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, , 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.
The effective date of this chapter, referred to in text, is 60 days after , see section 4 of Pub. L. 107–296, set out as an Effective Date note under section 101 of this title.