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[CITE: 22USC3306]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                      CHAPTER 48--TAIWAN RELATIONS
 
Sec. 3306. Services to United States citizens on Taiwan


(a) Authorized services

    The Institute may authorize any of its employees on Taiwan--
        (1) to administer to or take from any person an oath, 
    affirmation, affidavit, or deposition, and to perform any notarial 
    act which any notary public is required or authorized by law to 
    perform within the United States;
        (2) To \1\ act as provisional conservator of the personal 
    estates of deceased United States citizens; and
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should not be capitalized.
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        (3) to assist and protect the interests of United States persons 
    by performing other acts such as are authorized to be performed 
    outside the United States for consular purposes by such laws of the 
    United States as the President may specify.

(b) Acts by authorized employees

    Acts performed by authorized employees of the Institute under this 
section shall be valid, and of like force and effect within the United 
States, as if performed by any other person authorized under the laws of 
the United States to perform such acts.

(Pub. L. 96-8, Sec. 7, Apr. 10, 1979, 93 Stat. 17.)
