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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 65 — Wheat and Wheat Foods Research and Nutrition Education

§ 3411. Suspension and termination of orders

Statutory text

(a)

Authority and responsibility of Secretary

The Secretary shall, whenever he finds that any order issued under this chapter, or any provision thereof, obstructs or does not tend to effectuate the declared policy of this chapter, terminate or suspend the operation of such order or such provision thereof.

(b)

Referendum

The Secretary may conduct a referendum at any time, and shall hold a referendum on request of 10 per centum or more of the number of end product manufacturers subject to the order, to determine whether such manufacturers favor the termination or suspension of the order, and the Secretary shall suspend or terminate such order within six months after the Secretary determines that suspension or termination of the order is approved or favored by a majority of the end product manufacturers voting in such referendum who, during a representative period determined by the Secretary, have been engaged in the manufacture of end products or by end product manufacturers who produced end products containing more than 50 per centum of the total processed wheat contained in all end products manufactured during such period by the end product manufacturers voting in the referendum.

(c)

Suspension or termination of order not to be considered an order

The termination or suspension of any order, or any provision thereof, shall not be considered an order within the meaning of this chapter.

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. Food and Agriculture Act of 1977

    Pub. L. 95–113 title XVII § 1712 · 91 Stat. 913

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 3411

    (Pub. L. 95–113, title XVII, § 1712, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 1038.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 95–113, title XVII, § 1712, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 1038.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 1712. suspension and termination of orders (a) The Secretary shall, whenever he finds that any order issued under this title, or any provision thereof, obstructs or does not tend to effectuate the declared policy of this title, terminate or suspend the operation of such order or such provision thereof. (b) The Secretary may conduct a referendum at any time, and shall hold a referendum on request of 10 per centum or more of the number of end product manufacturers subject to the order, to deter-mine whether such manufacturers favor the termination or suspension of the order, and the Secretary shall suspend or terminate such order within six months after the Secretary determines that suspension or termination of the order is approved or favored by a majority of the end product manufacturers voting in such referendum who, during a representative period determined by the Secretary, have been engaged in the manufacture of end products or by end product manufacturers who produced end products con-Gaining more than 50 per centum of the total processed wheat contained in all end products manufactured during such period by the end product manufacturers voting in the. referendum. (c) The termination or suspension of any order, or any provision thereof, shall not be considered an older within the meaning of this title.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95–113, set out as an Effective Date of 1977 Amendment note under section 1307 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 95–113, title XVII, § 1712, , 91 Stat. 1038.)

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