Page:Federal Register Act 1935.djvu/3

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

ﬁrmed communications from outside of the District of Columbia; (b) the documents which shall be authorized pursuant to section 5 (b) to be published in the Federal Register; (c) the manner and form in which the Federal Register shall be printed, reprinted, compiled, indexed, bound, and distributed; (d) the number of copies of the Federal Register, which shall be printed, reprinted, and com- piled, the number which shall be distributed withOut charge to Members of Congress, ofﬁcers and employees of the United States, or any Federal agency for their official use, and the number which shall be available for distribution to the public; and (e) the prices to be charged for individual copies of, and subscriptions to, the Federal Register and reprints and bound volumes thereof.

SEC. 7. No document required under section 5 (a) to be published in the Federal Register shall be valid as against any person who has not had actual knowledge thereof until the duplicate originals or certiﬁed copies of the document shall have been ﬁled with the Division and a copy made available for public inspection as provided in section 2; and, unless otherwise speciﬁcally provided by statute, such ﬁling of any document, required or authorized to be published under section 5, shall, except in cases where notice by publication is insufﬁcient in law, be sufﬁcient to give notice of the contents of such document to any person subject thereto or affected thereby. The publication in the Federal Register of any document shall create a rebuttable presumption (a) that it was duly issued, prescribed, or promulgated; (b) that it was duly ﬁled with the Division and made available for public inspection at the day and hour stated in the printed notation; (c) that the copy contained in the Federal Register Edited part finishes here is a true copy of the original; and, (d) that all requirements of this Act and the regulations prescribed hereunder relative to such document have been complied with. The contents of the Federal Register shall be judicially noticed and, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, may be cited by volume and page number. SEC. 8. Whenever notice of hearing or of opportunity to be heard is required or authorized to be given by or under an Act of the Congress, or may otherwise preperly be given, the notice shall be deemed to have been duly given to all persons residing Within the continental United States (not including Alaska), except in cases where notice by publication is insufﬁcient in law, if said notice shall be published in the Federal Register at such time that the period between the publication and the date ﬁxed in such notice for the hearing or for the termination of the opportunity to be heard shall be (a) not less than the time speciﬁcally prescribed for the publica- tion of the notice by the appropriate Act of the Congress; or (b) not less than ﬁfteen days when no time for publicatiori is speciﬁcally prescribed by the Act, without prejudice, hOWever, to the effective- ness of an notice of less than ﬁfteen days where such shorter period is reasona le.

SEC. 9. Every payment made for the Federal Register shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt. The cost of printing, reprinting, wrapping, binding, and distributinrr the Fed- eral Register and any other expenses incurred by the (fovernment Printing Oﬂice in carrying out the duties placed upon it by this Act shall be borne by the appropriations to the Government Print- ing Oiﬁce and such appropriations are hereby made available, and are authorized to be increased by such additional sums as are neces~ sary for such 11rposes, such increases to be based upon estimates submitted by t e Public Printer. The purposes for which appro- priations are available and are authorized to be made under section 10 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Archives