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[CITE: 15USC57b-5]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
   CHAPTER 2--FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE AND 
               PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER I--FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
 
Sec. 57b-5. Agricultural cooperatives

    (a) The Commission shall not have any authority to conduct any 
study, investigation, or prosecution of any agricultural cooperative for 
any conduct which, because of the provisions of sections 291 and 292 of 
title 7, is not a violation of any of the antitrust Acts or this 
subchapter.
    (b) The Commission shall not have any authority to conduct any study 
or investigation of any agricultural marketing orders.

(Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, Sec. 24, as added Pub. L. 103-312, Sec. 2, 
Aug. 26, 1994, 108 Stat. 1691.)

                       References in Text

    The antitrust Acts, referred to in subsec. (a), are defined in 
section 44 of this title.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 24 of act Sept. 26, 1914, was renumbered section 25 
and is classified to section 57c of this title.
