Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 100 Part 4.djvu/240

 100 STAT. 3168

Ante, p. 3153.

PUBLIC LAW 99-562—OCT. 27, 1986

under this subsection, to the extent that such rules are not • a. inconsistent with the provisions of this section. "(k) DISCLOSURE E!XEMPTION.—Any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or oral testimony provided under any civil investigative demand issued under subsection (a) shall be exempt from disclosure under section 552 of title 5. / J "(1) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— "(1) the term 'false claims law' means— "(A) this section and sections 3729 through 3732; and "(B) any Act of Congress enacted after the date of the enactment of this section which prohibits, or makes available J to the United States in any court of the United States any civil remedy with respect to, any false claim against, bribery of, or corruption of any officer or employee of the United States; "(2) the term 'false claims law investigation' means any inquiry conducted by any false claims law investigator for the purpose of ascertaining whether any person is or has been I engaged in any violation of a false claims law; ^ "(3) the term 'false claims law investigator' means any attorney or investigator employed by the Department of Justice who is charged with the duty of enforcing or carrying into effect any false claims law, or any officer or employee of the United States acting under the direction and supervision of such attorney or i investigator in connection with a false claims law investigation; I "(4) the term 'person' means any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, including any •f State or political subdivision of a State; 1 "(5) the term 'documentary material' includes the original or any copy of any book, record, report, memorandum, paper, communication, tabulation, chart, or other document, or data compilations stored in or accessible through computer or other information retrieval systems, together with instructions and all other materials necessary to use or interpret such data compilations, and any product of discovery; "(6) the term 'custodian' means the custodian, or any deputy custodian, designated by the Attorney General under subsection (i)(l);and "(7) the term 'product of discovery' includes— "(A) the original or duplicate of any deposition, interrogatory, document, thing, result of the inspection of land or other property, examination, or admission, which is obtained by any method of discovery in any judicial or administrative proceeding of an adversarial nature; "(B) any digest, analysis, selection, compilation, or derivation of any item listed in subparagraph (A); and "(C) any index or other manner of access to any item listed in subparagraph (A).", (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents for chapter 37 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to section 3731 the following: "3732. False claims jurisdiction. "3733. Civil investigative demands.".

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