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[CITE: 28USC463]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART I--ORGANIZATION OF COURTS
 
     CHAPTER 21--GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COURTS AND JUDGES
 
Sec. 463. Expenses of litigation

    Whenever a Chief Justice, justice, judge, officer, or employee of 
any United States court is sued in his official capacity, or is 
otherwise required to defend acts taken or omissions made in his 
official capacity, and the services of an attorney for the Government 
are not reasonably available pursuant to chapter 31 of this title, the 
Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts may 
pay the costs of his defense. The Director shall prescribe regulations 
for such payments subject to the approval of the Judicial Conference of 
the United States.

(Added Pub. L. 97-164, title I, Sec. 116(a), Apr. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 32.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 1, 1982, see section 402 of Pub. L. 97-164, 
set out as an Effective Date of 1982 Amendment note under section 171 of 
this title.
