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Code · U.S. Code · Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE · CHAPTER 25— PROTECTION OF VESSELS ON THE HIGH SEAS AND IN TERRITORIAL WATERS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES · § 1974

§ 1974. Inapplicability of chapter to certain seizures

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The provisions of this chapter shall not apply with respect to a seizure made by a country at war with the United States or a seizure made in accordance with the provisions of any applicable convention or treaty, if that treaty or convention was made with advice and consent to 1 the Senate and was in force and effect for the United States and the seizing country at the time of the seizure.
(Aug. 27, 1954, ch. 1018, § 4, 68 Stat. 883; Pub. L. 98–364, title III, § 303(b), July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 444.)
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  • Aug. 27, 1954, ch. 1018, § 4
  • 68 Stat. 883
  • Pub. L. 98–364, title III, § 303(b)
  • 98 Stat. 444
  • Pub. L. 98–364
  • section 303(c) of Pub. L. 98–364
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