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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1574-1. Applicability of laws referred to in section 502(a)(1) of Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Effective on the date when section 502 of the Covenant to
Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in
Political Union With the United States of America, approved by
joint resolution approved on March 24, 1976 (90 Stat. 263) goes
into force those laws which are referred to in section 502(a)(1) of
said Covenant, except for any laws administered by the Social
Security Administration, except for medicaid which is now
administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and
except the Micronesian Claims Act of 1971 (85 Stat. 96) shall be
applicable to the territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands on the
same terms and conditions as such laws are applied to the Northern
Mariana Islands.
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