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PUBLIC LAW 87-421-MAR. 20, 1962

"As used in this section, the term (a) 'any employee welfare benefit plan' or 'employee pension benefit plan' means any such p^an subject to the provisions of the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act, as amended, and (b) 'employee organization' and 'administrator' as defined respectively in sections 3(3) and 5(b)(1) and (2) of the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act, as amended. "(b) Whenever in the judgment of a United States attorney ttie testimony of any witness, or the production of books, papers, or other evidence by any witness, in any case or proceeding before any grand jury or court of the United States involving any violation of this section, or any conspiracy to violate such section, is necessary to the public interest, he, upon the approval of the Attorney General, shall make application to the court that the witness shall be instructed to testify or produce evidence subject to the provisions of this subsection, and upon order of the court such witness shall not be excused from testifying or from producing books, papers, or other evidence on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no such witness shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against selfincrimination, to testify or produce evidence, nor shall testimony so compelled be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding (except prosecution described in the next sentence) against him in any court. iVo witness shall be exempt under this subsection from prosecution for perjury or contempt committed while giving testimony or producing evidence under compulsion as provided in this subsection." (f) The analysis of chapter 95, title 18, United States Code, immediately preceding section 1951 thereof, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new item: "1954. Offer, acceptance, or solicitation to influence operations of employee benefit plan." SEC. 18. The Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act is further amended by substituting the term "Secretary" for the term "Secretary of Labor" wherever the latter term appears in such Act. SEC. 19. The amendments made by this Act shall take effect ninety days after the enactment of this Act, except that section 13 of the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act shall take effect one hundred eighty days after such date of enactment. Approved March 20, 1962, 10:15 a.m.

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Public Law 87-421 AN ACT To amend section 17(a) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands pertaining to the salary of the government comptroller.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) of section 17 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, as amended (48 U.S.C. sec. 1599(a)), is amended by striking out the first sentence of said subsection and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The Secretary of the Interior shall appoint a government comptroller who shall receive an annual salary at a rate established in accordance with the standards provided by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended." Approved March 20, 1962.

March 20, 1962 [H. R. 7665]

Virgin Islands. G o V e rnment comptroller, salary. 68 Stat. 504.

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