
From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 2, 2001 and January 28, 2002]
[CITE: 10USC2312]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
                   CHAPTER 137--PROCUREMENT GENERALLY
 
Sec. 2312. Remission of liquidated damages

    Upon the recommendation of the head of an agency, the Secretary of 
the Treasury may remit all or part, as he considers just and equitable, 
of any liquidated damages assessed for delay in performing a contract, 
made by that agency, that provides for such damages.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 132; Pub. L. 104-316, title II, 
Sec. 202(c), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3842.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------
            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------
2312..................................  41:155.                              Fe
b. 19, 1948, ch. 65, Sec.  6, 62
                                                                              S
tat. 24.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------

    The words ``a contract, made by that agency, that provides for'' are 
substituted for the words ``any contract made on behalf of the 
Government by the agency head or by officers authorized by him so to do 
includes a provision''.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-316 substituted ``Secretary of the Treasury'' for 
``Comptroller General''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 50 section 403c.
