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[CITE: 22USC1974]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
 CHAPTER 25--PROTECTION OF VESSELS ON THE HIGH SEAS AND IN TERRITORIAL 
                       WATERS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES
 
Sec. 1974. Inapplicability of chapter to certain seizures

    The provisions of this chapter shall not apply with respect to a 
seizure made by a country at war with the United States or a seizure 
made in accordance with the provisions of any applicable convention or 
treaty, if that treaty or convention was made with advice and consent to 
\1\ the Senate and was in force and effect for the United States and the 
seizing country at the time of the seizure.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``of''.
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(Aug. 27, 1954, ch. 1018, Sec. 4, 68 Stat. 883; Pub. L. 98-364, title 
III, Sec. 303(b), July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 444.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Pub. L. 98-364 substituted ``any applicable convention or 
treaty, if that treaty or convention was made with advice and consent to 
the Senate and was in force and effect for the United States and the 
seizing country at the time of the seizure'' for ``any fishery 
convention or treaty to which the United States is a party''.


                    Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 98-364 applicable with respect to seizures made 
after Apr. 1, 1983, by foreign countries of vessels of the United 
States, see section 303(c) of Pub. L. 98-364, set out as a note under 
section 1972 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 16 section 972c.
