78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 479-OCT. 3, 1944 export. The Board shall prescribe regulations to carry out such policy, and the importation of surplus property into the United States is hereby prohibited to the extent specified in such regulations. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to provide for the enforcement of such regulations. (b) Surplus property sold to members of the armed forces abroad may be brought into the United States without regard to the provi- sions of subsection (a) if brought in by the original purchaser and upon certificate by him that he is bringing the property into the United States for his personal use. SAVING PRoVIsIONS SEC. 34. (a) The authority conferred by this Act is in addition to any authority conferred by any other law and shall not be subject to the provisions of any law inconsistent herewith. This Act shall not impair or affect any authority for the disposition of property under any other law, except that the Board may prescribe regulations to govern any disposition of surplus property under any such authority to the same extent as if the disposition were made under this Act, whenever it deems such action necessary to effectuate the objectives and policies of this Act. (b) Nothing in this Act shall impair or affect the provisions of the Contract Settlement Act of 1944- the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended; the Act of October 2, 1942 (ch. 578, 56 Stat. 765), as amended; section 301 of the Second War Powers Act, 1942; the Act of March 11, 1941 (55 Stat. 31), as amended; the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended; Public Law 849, Seventy- sixth Congress, as amended, respecting war housing and facilities; the Act of June 7, 1939, relating to the acquisition of strategic and critical materials (53 Stat. 811); the Trading With the Enemy Act, as amended; section 43 of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended; Acts supplemental to any of the foregoing; any law regu- lating the exportation of property from the United States; the internal-revenue laws; the statutes relating to the public lands; or any criminal law of the United States. (c) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to impair or modify any contract, or any term or provision of any contract, without the con- sent of the contractor, if the contract or the term or provision thereof is otherwise valid. TEMPORARY APPLICABILIT OF EXISTING PROCEDURES SEC. 35. All policies and procedures relating to surplus property prescribed by the Surplus War Property Administration, created by Executive Order Numbered 9425, dated February 19, 1944, or any other Government agency, in effect upon the effective date of this Act, and not inconsistent with this Act, shall remain in full force and effect unless and until superseded by regulations prescribed under this Act. TERMINATION INVENTORIES SEC. 36. (a) The Congress recognizes that upon termination of war contracts, the plants of war contractors will be filled with vast termination inventories which until removed or disposed of will pre- vent or interfere with the resumption of civilian production and reemployment, and that so far as possible decisions should be made in advance of termination for the disposition and removal of such termination inventories without delay when termination occurs 783 Sales abroad to members of armed forces. Ante, p. 649. 56 Stat. 23 . Ante, pp. 632, 642; post, p . 784. 56 Stat. 177. Ante, p. 222. 48 Stat. 58 . 54 Stat. 1125. Ante, p. 720. 40 Stat. 411 . 50 Stat. 530 . 9F.R.207. 58 STAT.]
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