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[CITE: 10USC980]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER 49--MISCELLANEOUS PROHIBITIONS AND PENALTIES
 
Sec. 980. Limitation on use of humans as experimental subjects

    Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense may not be used for 
research involving a human being as an experimental subject unless--
        (1) the informed consent of the subject is obtained in advance; 
    or
        (2) in the case of research intended to be beneficial to the 
    subject, the informed consent of the subject or a legal 
    representative of the subject is obtained in advance.

(Added Pub. L. 98-525, title XIV, Sec. 1401(c)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 
Stat. 2615.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the 
following appropriation acts:
    Pub. L. 98-473, title I, Sec. 101(h) [title VIII, Sec. 8029], Oct. 
12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1904, 1929.
    Pub. L. 98-212, title VII, Sec. 734, Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1444.
    Pub. L. 97-377, title I, Sec. 101(c) [title VII, Sec. 737], Dec. 21, 
1982, 96 Stat. 1833, 1857.
    Pub. L. 97-114, title VII, Sec. 738, Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1585.
    Pub. L. 96-527, title VII, Sec. 739, Dec. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 3088.
    Pub. L. 96-154, title VII, Sec. 741, Dec. 21, 1979, 93 Stat. 1159.
    Pub. L. 95-457, title VIII, Sec. 841, Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1251.
    Pub. L. 95-111, title VIII, Sec. 840, Sept. 21, 1977, 91 Stat. 906.
    Pub. L. 94-419, title VII, Sec. 739, Sept. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 1297.
    Pub. L. 94-212, title VII, Sec. 740, Feb. 9, 1976, 90 Stat. 175.
    Pub. L. 93-437, title VIII, Sec. 841, Oct. 8, 1974, 88 Stat. 1231.
    Pub. L. 93-238, title VII, Sec. 743, Jan. 2, 1974, 87 Stat. 1045.
    Pub. L. 92-570, title VII, Sec. 745, Oct. 26, 1972, 86 Stat. 1203.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 1, 1985, see section 1404 of Pub. L. 98-525, 
set out as a note under section 520b of this title.
