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PUBLIC LAW 89-563-SEPT. 9, 1966
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such certification may be in the form of a label or tag on such item or on the outside of a container in which such item is delivered. In the I'ase of a motor vehicle such certification shall be in the form of a label or tag permanently affixed to such motor vehicle. National Traffic SEC. 115. The Secretary shall carry out the provisions of this Act Safety Agency, through a National Traffic Safety Agency (hereinafter referred to as estabiisifment the "Agency"), which he shall establish in the Department of Commerce. The Agency shall be headed by a Traffic Safety Administrator vv'ho shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall be compensated at the rate prescribed for level V of the Federal Executive Salary Schedule established by the Federal Executive Salary Act of 1961. The Administrator shall 5Vsc'22n'.' be a citizen of the United States, and shall be appointed with due regard for his fitness to discharge efficiently the powers and the duties delegated to him pursuant to this Act. The Administrator shall perform such duties as are delegated to him by the Secretary. SEC. 116. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to exempt from ihe antitrust laws of the United States any conduct that would otherwise be unlawful under such laws, or to prohibit under the antitrust laws of the United States any conduct that would be lawful under such laws. SEC. 117. (a) The Act entitled An Act to provide that hydraulic BrTe^f!uid. brake fluid sold or shipped in commerce for use in motor vehicles shall meet certain specifications prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, approved September 5, 1962 (76 Stat. 437; Public Law 87-637), and ^3^^^^^ ^^oithe Act entitled "An Act to provide that seat belts sold or shipped in sekt belts, interstate commerce for use in motor vehicles shall meet certain safety standards", approved December 13, 1963 (77 Stat. 361; Public Law 15 USC 132 188-201), are hereby repealed. 1323. (b) Whoever, prior to the date of enactment of this section, knowingly and willfully violates any provision of law repealed by subsection (a) of this section, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of such laws as in effect on the date such violation occurred. , (c) All standards issued under authority of the laws repealed by subsection (a) of this section which are in efl'ect at the time this section takes effect, shall continue in effect as if they had been effectively issued under section 103 until amended or revoked by the Secretary, or a court of competent jurisdiction by operation of law. (d) Any proceeding relating to any provision of law repealed by subsection (a) of this section which is pending at the time this section takes effect shall be continued by the Secretary as if this section had not been enacted, and orders issued in any such proceeding shall continue in effect as if they had been effectively issued under section 103 until amended or revoked by the Secretary in accordance with this title, or by operation of law. (e) The repeals made by subsection (a) of this section shall not savings proviaffect any suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced prior to the date this section takes effect, and all such suits, actions, and l)roceedings, shall be continued, proceedings therein had, appeals therein taken, and judgments therein rendered, in the same manner and with the same effect as if this section had not been enacted. No suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against any agency or officer of the United States in relation to the discharge of official duties under any provision of law repealed by subsection (a) of this section shall abate by reason of such repeal, but the court, upon motion or supplemental petition filed at any time within 12 months after the date of enactment of this section showing the necessity for the survival of such suit, action, or other proceeding to obtain
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