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[CITE: 48USC1424-4]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                            CHAPTER 8A--GUAM
 
                      SUBCHAPTER IV--THE JUDICIARY
 
Sec. 1424-4. Criminal offenses; procedure; definitions

    Where appropriate, the provisions of part II of title 18 and of 
title 28, United States Code, and notwithstanding the provision in rule 
54(a) Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure relating to the prosecution of 
criminal offenses on Guam by information, the rules of practice and 
procedure heretofore or hereafter promulgated and made effective by the 
Congress or the Supreme Court of the United States pursuant to titles 
11, 18, and 28, United States Code, shall apply to the District Court of 
Guam and appeals therefrom; except that the terms, ``Attorney for the 
government'' and ``United States attorney'', as used in the Federal 
Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall, when applicable to cases arising 
under the laws of Guam, including the Guam Territorial income tax, mean 
the Attorney General of Guam or such other person or persons as may be 
authorized by the laws of Guam to act therein.

(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, Sec. 22D, as added Pub. L. 98-454, title VIII, 
Sec. 801, Oct. 5, 1984, 98 Stat. 1743.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, referred to in text, are 
set out in the Appendix to Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective on ninetieth day following Oct. 5, 1984, see 
section 1005 of Pub. L. 98-454, set out as an Effective Date of 1984 
Amendment note under section 1424 of this title.
