58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 224 , 233 -JUNE 1, 3 , 1944 SEC. 7. The Superintendent, his deputy, or duly authorized exam- iner, is authorized and empowered to examine all records of the rating bureau, companies, and agents, and to require every company to furnish statistical reports of premiums and losses in such form and according to such classifications as the Superintendent shall prescribe and any other information which the Superintendent may deem necessary for the administration of this Act. The Superintendent may require the rating bureau to consolidate the reports of classified experience. SEC. 8. No rate, premium, schedule, rating method, rule, bylaw, agreement, or regulation shall become effective or be charged, applied, or enforced in the District by the rating bureau, or by any company, agent, or broker governed by the provisions of this Act, until it shall have been first filed with and approved by the Superintendent: Provided,That a rate or premium used or charged in accordance with a schedule, rating method, or rule previously approved by the Super- intendent need not be specifically approved by the Superintendent. No company, agent, or broker shall issue any form of policy, clause, warranty, rider, or endorsement until such form shall have been filed with and approved by the Superintendent. SEC. 9 . Any company or any agent or broker guilty of violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be subject to the provisions of sections 3 and 36, respectively, and as may be amended, of chapter II, Public, Numbered 824, Seventy-sixth Congress, known as the Fire and Casualty Act, approved October 9, 1940 (54 Stat. 1066 and 1079; D. C . Code, 1940 edition, title 35, secs. 1306 and 1340). SEC. 10. All laws or parts of laws, insofar as they relate to business affected hereby and in conflict with any of the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 11 . Should any section or provision of this Act be decided by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, the validity of the Act as a whole, or of any part thereof, other than the part decided to be unconstitutional, shall not be affected. Approved June 1, 1944. [CHAPTER 233] AN ACT To amend section 451 of the Tariff Act of 1930, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 451 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (U. S . C., title 19, sec. 1451), is hereby amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: "Provided, That the provisions of this section, sec- tions 450 and 452 of this Act, and the provisions of section 5 of the Act of February 13, 1911, as amended (U. S . C., title 19, sec. 267), insofar as such section 5 requires payment of compensation by the master, owner, agent, or consignee of a vessel or conveyance, shall not apply to the owner, operator, or agent of a highway vehicle, bridge, tunnel, or ferry, between the United States and Canada or between the United States and Mexico, nor to the lading or unlading of merchandise, baggage, or persons arriving in or departing from the United States by motor vehicle, trolley car, on foot, or by other means of highway travel upon, over, or through any highway, bridge, tunnel, or ferry. At ports of entry and customs stations where any merchandise, baggage, or persons shall arrive in or depart from the United States by motor vehicle, trolley car, on foot, or by other means of highway travel upon, over, or through any highway, bridge, tunnel, or ferry, between the United States and Canada or between the United States and Mexico, the collector, under such regulations 269 Examinations. Filing and approval of rate, etc. Penalty. Ante, p. 192. Repeals. Saving clause. June 3, 1944 [S. 17581 (Public Law 328] Tariff Act of 1930, amendments. 46 Stat. 715. 19 U. s. 0.0§ 1450, 1452. 36 Stat. 901. Inspection at ports of entry and customs stations. Assignment of cus. toms officers, etc.
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