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[CITE: 7USC2154]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER 54--TRANSPORTATION, SALE, AND HANDLING OF CERTAIN ANIMALS
 
Sec. 2154. Effective dates

    The regulations referred to in sections 2140 and 2143 of this title 
shall be prescribed by the Secretary as soon as reasonable but not later 
than six months from August 24, 1966. Additions and amendments thereto 
may be prescribed from time to time as may be necessary or advisable. 
Compliance by dealers with the provisions of this chapter and such 
regulations shall commence ninety days after the promulgation of such 
regulations. Compliance by research facilities with the provisions of 
this chapter and such regulations shall commence six months after the 
promulgation of such regulations, except that the Secretary may grant 
extensions of time to research facilities which do not comply with the 
standards prescribed by the Secretary pursuant to section 2143 of this 
title provided that the Secretary determines that there is evidence that 
the research facilities will meet such standards within a reasonable 
time. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, compliance 
by intermediate handlers, and carriers, and other persons with those 
provisions of this chapter, as amended by the Animal Welfare Act 
Amendments of 1976, and those regulations promulgated thereunder, which 
relate to actions of intermediate handlers and carriers, shall commence 
90 days after promulgation of regulations under section 2143 of this 
title, as amended, with respect to intermediate handlers and carriers, 
and such regulations shall be promulgated no later than 9 months after 
April 22, 1976; and compliance by dealers, exhibitors, operators of 
auction sales, and research facilities with other provisions of this 
chapter, as so amended, and the regulations thereunder, shall commence 
upon the expiration of 90 days after April 22, 1976: Provided, however, 
That compliance by all persons with subsections (b), (c), and (d) of 
section 2143 and with section 2156 of this title, as so amended, shall 
commence upon the expiration of said ninety-day period. In all other 
respects, said amendments shall become effective on April 22, 1976.

(Pub. L. 89-544, Sec. 24, Aug. 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 353; Pub. L. 94-279, 
Sec. 15, Apr. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 421.)

                       References in Text

    The Animal Welfare Act Amendments of 1976, referred to in text, is 
Pub. L. 94-279, Apr. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 417, which enacted section 2156 
of this title, amended sections 2131, 2132, 2134, 2136, 2139 to 2146, 
2149, 2153 to 2155 of this title, and section 3001 of Title 39, Postal 
Service, repealed section 2150 of this title, and enacted provisions set 
out as notes under section 2131 of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1976 
Amendment note set out under section 3121 of this title and Tables.
    Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 2143 of this title, 
referred to in text, were redesignated subsecs. (f), (g), and (h), 
respectively, and new subsecs. (b), (c), and (d) of section 2143 were 
enacted, by Pub. L. 99-198, title XVII, Sec. 1752(a)(1), (c), Dec. 23, 
1985, 99 Stat. 1645, 1647.


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 94-279 inserted provisions setting particular 
effective dates of compliance for intermediate handlers and carriers and 
for dealers, exhibitors, operators of auction sales, and research 
facilities with respect to the amendments made by the Animal Welfare Act 
Amendments of 1976.
