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[CITE: 38USC5712]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
               PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                 CHAPTER 57--RECORDS AND INVESTIGATIONS
 
                      SUBCHAPTER II--INVESTIGATIONS
 
Sec. 5712. Validity of affidavits

    Any such oath, affirmation, affidavit, or examination, when 
certified under the hand of any such employee by whom it was 
administered or taken and authenticated by the seal of the Department, 
may be offered or used in any court of the United States and without 
further proof of the identity or authority of such employee shall have 
like force and effect as if administered or taken before a clerk of such 
court.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1237, Sec. 3312; renumbered 
Sec. 5712, Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, Sec. 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 
Stat. 238; Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(a)(3), (4), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 
404.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-40 renumbered section 3312 of this title as this 
section.
    Pub. L. 102-83 substituted ``Department'' for ``Veterans' 
Administration''.
