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[CITE: 50USC4]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                 CHAPTER 1--COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
Sec. 4. Rules and regulations; subordinate bodies and committees

    The Council of National Defense shall adopt rules and regulations 
for the conduct of its work, which rules and regulations shall be 
subject to the approval of the President, and shall provide for the work 
of the advisory commission to the end that the special knowledge of such 
commission may be developed by suitable investigation, research, and 
inquiry and made available in conference and report for the use of the 
council; and the council may organize subordinate bodies for its 
assistance in special investigations, either by the employment of 
experts or by the creation of committees of specially qualified persons 
to serve without compensation, but to direct the investigations of 
experts so employed.

(Aug. 29, 1916, ch. 418, Sec. 2, 39 Stat. 650.)


                   Termination of Advisory Commissions

    Advisory commissions in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not 
later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, 
unless, in the case of a commission established by the President or an 
officer of the Federal Government, such commission is renewed by 
appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in 
the case of a commission established by the Congress, its duration is 
otherwise provided by law. Advisory commissions established after Jan. 
5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period 
beginning on the date of their establishment, unless, in the case of a 
commission established by the President or an officer of the Federal 
Government, such commission is renewed by appropriate action prior to 
the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a commission 
established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided by law. 
See sections 3(2) and 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 770, 
776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and 
Employees.
