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[CITE: 50USC1631]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                    CHAPTER 34--NATIONAL EMERGENCIES
 
      SUBCHAPTER III--EXERCISE OF EMERGENCY POWERS AND AUTHORITIES
 
Sec. 1631. Declaration of national emergency by Executive order; 
        authority; publication in Federal Register; transmittal to 
        Congress
        
    When the President declares a national emergency, no powers or 
authorities made available by statute for use in the event of an 
emergency shall be exercised unless and until the President specifies 
the provisions of law under which he proposes that he, or other officers 
will act. Such specification may be made either in the declaration of a 
national emergency, or by one or more contemporaneous or subsequent 
Executive orders published in the Federal Register and transmitted to 
the Congress.

(Pub. L. 94-412, title III, Sec. 301, Sept. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1257.)


                  Release of American Hostages in Iran

    For provisions relating to the release of the American hostages in 
Iran, see Ex. Ord. Nos. 12276 to 12285, Jan. 19, 1981, 46 F.R. 7913 to 
7932, set out under section 1701 of this title.
