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[CITE: 10USC7299]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                       CHAPTER 633--NAVAL VESSELS
 
Sec. 7299. Contracts: applicability of Walsh-Healey Act

    Each contract for the construction, alteration, furnishing, or 
equipping of a naval vessel is subject to the Walsh-Healey Act (41 
U.S.C. 35 et seq.) unless the President determines that this requirement 
is not in the interest of national defense.

(Added Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title VIII, Sec. 815(a), Feb. 10, 1996, 
110 Stat. 396.)

                       References in Text

    The Walsh-Healey Act, referred to in text, is act June 30, 1936, ch. 
881, 49 Stat. 2036, as amended, which is classified generally to 
sections 35 to 45 of Title 41, Public Contracts. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 35 of Title 41 and Tables. See, also, section 262 of Title 
29, Labor.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 7299, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 449; 
Aug. 25, 1958, Pub. L. 85-747, 72 Stat. 839; Dec. 12, 1980, Pub. L. 96-
513, title V, Sec. 513(26), 94 Stat. 2932; Oct. 12, 1982, Pub. L. 97-
295, Sec. 1(47), 96 Stat. 1298, directed that each contract for 
construction, alteration, furnishing, or equipping of naval vessel was 
subject to the Walsh-Healey Act, unless President determined that such 
requirement was not in interest of national defense, prior to repeal by 
Pub. L. 103-355, title III, Sec. 3023(a), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3333.
