§3306 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The Institute may allow its employees in Taiwan to do three kinds of official work for U.S. persons. They can do notary work like giving oaths, taking affidavits and depositions, and other acts a U.S. notary would do. They can act as temporary managers of the personal estates of deceased U.S. citizens. They can also give other consular-type help that the President allows. Any acts done by those authorized employees are valid in the United States and have the same legal effect as if done by someone else who is allowed under U.S. law to do them.

Title 22, §3306

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(a)The Institute may authorize any of its employees on Taiwan—

(1)to administer to or take from any person an oath, affirmation, affidavit, or deposition, and to perform any notarial act which any notary public is required or authorized by law to perform within the United States;

(2)To 11 So in original. Probably should not be capitalized. act as provisional conservator of the personal estates of deceased United States citizens; and

(3)to assist and protect the interests of United States persons by performing other acts such as are authorized to be performed outside the United States for consular purposes by such laws of the United States as the President may specify.

(b)Acts performed by authorized employees of the Institute under this section shall be valid, and of like force and effect within the United States, as if performed by any other person authorized under the laws of the United States to perform such acts.

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Section effective as of January 1, 1979, see section 18 of Pub. L. 96–8, set out as a note under section 3301 of this title.

§3306 Services to United States Citizens on Taiwan

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Title 22, §3306

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