Page:Federal Register Act 1935.djvu/2

 74TH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 417. JULY 26, 1935.

Register.” It shall be the duty of the Public Printer to make avail- able the facilities of the Government Printing Ofﬁce for the prompt printing and distribution of the Federal Register in the manner and at the times required in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations prescribed hereunder. The contents of the daily issues shall be indexed and shall comprise all documents, required or authorized to be published, ﬁled with the Division up to such time of the day immediately preceding the day of distribution as shall be ﬁxed by regulations hereunder. There shall be printed with each document a copy of the notation, required to be made under section 2, of the day and hour when, upon ﬁling with the Division, such document was made available for public inspection. Distribution shall be made by delivery or by deposit at a post ofﬁce at such time in the morning of the day of distribution as shall be ﬁxed by such regulations prescribed hereunder. The prices to be charged for the Federal Register may be ﬁxed by the administrative committee established by section 6 without reference to the restrictions placed upon and ﬁxed for the sale of Government publications by section 1 of the Act of May 11, 1922, and section 307 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (U. S. C., title 44, secs. 72 and 72a), and any amend- ments thereto.

SEC, 4. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires. the term “ document ” means any Presidential proclamation or Executive order and any order, regulation, rule, certiﬁcate, code of fair competition, license, notice, or similar instrument. issued, prescribed, or promulgated by a Federal agency; the terms “ Federal agency ” or “agency ” mean the President of the United States, or any executive department, independent board, establishment, bureau, agency, institution, commission, or separate ofﬁce of the administrative branch of the Government of the United States but not the legislative or judicial branches of the Government; and the term “person” means any individual, partnership, association, or corporation.

SEC. 5. (a) There shall be published in the Federal Register (1) all Presidential proclamations and Executive orders, except such as have no general applicability and legal effect or are effective only against Federal agencies or persons in their capacity as ofﬁcers, agents, or employees thereof; (2) such documents or classes of documents as the President shall determine from time to time have general applicability and legal effect; and (3) such documents or classes of documents as may be required so to be published by Act of the Congress: Provided, That for the purposes of this Act every document or order which shall prescribe a penalty shall be deemed to have general applicability and legal effect.

(b) In addition to the foregoing there shall also be published in the Federal Register such other documents or classes of documents as may be authorized to be published pursuant hereto by regulations prescribed hereunder with the approval of the President, but in no case shall comments or news items of any character whatsoever be authorized to be published in the Federal register.

SEC. 6. There is established a permanent Administrative Committee of three members consisting of the Archivist or Acting Archi- vist, who shall be chairman, an officer of the Department of Justice designated by the Attorney General, and the Public Printer or Acting Public Printer. The Director of the Division shall act as secretary of the committee. The committee shall prescribe, with the approval of the President, regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Act. Such regulations shall provide, among other things: (a) The manner of certiﬁcation of copies required to be certiﬁed under section 2, which certiﬁcation may be permitted to be based upon con-