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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 757-OCT. 8, 1940 no amortization deduction with respect to such emergency facility shall be allowed for any month after the end of the month in which such contract is made, unless, before the expiration of ninety days after the making of such contract or one hundred and twenty days after the date of the enactment of the Second Revenue Act of 1940, whichever of such periods expires the later, the Advisory Commis- sion to the Council of National Defense, and either the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy certify to the Commissioner that such contract adequately protects the United States with reference to the future use and disposition of such emergency facility. A cer- tificate by the Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense and either the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, made to the Commissioner before the expiration of ninety days after the making of a contract or one hundred and twenty days after the date of the enactment of the Second Revenue Act of 1940, whichever of such periods expires the later, to the effect that, under such contract, reimbursement for all or a part of the cost of any emergency facility is not provided for within the meaning of clause (1) or clause (2), shall be conclusive for the purposes of this subsection. "The terms and conditions of contracts with reference to reimburse- ment of the cost of emergency facilities and the protecting of the United States with reference to the future use and disposition of such emergency facilities shall be made available to the public." TITLE IV-SUSPENSION PROVISIONS OF THE CERTAIN PROVISIONS MARINE ACT, 1936 1003 Nonallowance of amortization deduc- tion. Exception. Ante, p. 974. Reimbursement not provided for under contract. Availability to pub- lic of terms of con- tracts. OF PROFIT-LIMITING VINSON ACT AND OF THE MERCHANT SEC. 401. SUSPENSION OF PROFIT-LIMITING PROVISIONS OF THE VINSON ACT. The provisions of section 3 of the Act of March 27, 1934 (48 Stat. 505; 34 U. S. C., sec. 496), as amended beginning with the first proviso thereof, and section 2 (b) of the Act of June 28, 1940 (Public, Numbered 671, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session), shall not apply to contracts or subcontracts for the construction or manu- facture of any complete naval vessel or any Army or Navy aircraft, or any portion thereof, which are entered into in any taxable year to which the excess profits tax provided in subchapter E of Chapter 2 of the Internal Revenue Code is applicable or would be applicable if the contractor or subcontractor, as the case may be, were a corpo- ration, and any agreement to pay into the Treasury profit in excess of 10 per centum, 12 per centum, or 8 per centum, as the case may be, of the contract prices of any such contracts or subcontracts shall be without effect. This section shall also apply to such contracts or subcontracts which were entered into before the date of the begin- ning of the contractor's or subcontractor's first taxable year which begins in 1940 and which are not completed before such date. SEC. 402. SUSPENSION OF PROFIT-LIMITING PROVISIONS OF THE MERCHANT MARINE ACT, 1936, AS TO CERTAIN SUB- CONTRACTS. (a) The provisions of section 505 (b) of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as amended, shall not apply to any subcontract which would otherwise be within such provisions if such subcontract is entered into in any taxable year of the subcontractor to which Subchapter E of Chapter 2 of the Internal Revenue Code is applicable and if the 34 U. S. C., Supp. V, j 496. Ante, pp. 677, 883 . Ante, p. 975. 49 Stat. 1998. 46 U. . C., Supp. V, j 1155 (b). Ante, p. 975.

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