{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s6004","title_num":"18","num":"§ 6004.","heading":"Certain administrative proceedings","status":null,"guid":"idbf8a9961-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(Added Pub. L. 91–452, title II, § 201(a), Oct. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 927; amended Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330013(4), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)","seq_in_title":1384,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptV/ch601","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptV","level":"part","num":"PART V—","heading":"IMMUNITY OF WITNESSES","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptV/ch601","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 601—","heading":"IMMUNITY OF WITNESSES","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id757144bd-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s6004\"><num value=\"6004\">§ 6004.</num><heading> Certain administrative proceedings</heading><subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id757144be-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s6004/a\"><num value=\"a\">(a)</num><content> In the case of any individual who has been or who may be called to testify or provide other information at any proceeding before an agency of the United States, the agency may, with the approval of the Attorney General, issue, in accordance with subsection (b) of this section, an order requiring the individual to give testimony or provide other information which he refuses to give or provide on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination, such order to become effective as provided in <ref href=\"/us/usc/t18/s6002\">section 6002 of this title</ref>.</content>\n</subsection>\n<subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id757144bf-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s6004/b\"><num value=\"b\">(b)</num><chapeau> An agency of the United States may issue an order under subsection (a) of this section only if in its judgment—</chapeau><paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id757144c0-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s6004/b/1\"><num value=\"1\">(1)</num><content> the testimony or other information from such individual may be necessary to the public interest; and</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id757144c1-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s6004/b/2\"><num value=\"2\">(2)</num><content> such individual has refused or is likely to refuse to testify or provide other information on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination.</content>\n</paragraph>\n</subsection>\n<sourceCredit id=\"id757144c2-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(Added <ref href=\"/us/pl/91/452/tII/s201/a\">Pub. L. 91–452, title II, § 201(a)</ref>, <date date=\"1970-10-15\">Oct. 15, 1970</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/84/927\">84 Stat. 927</ref>; amended <ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322/tXXXIII/s330013/4\">Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330013(4)</ref>, <date date=\"1994-09-13\">Sept. 13, 1994</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/108/2146\">108 Stat. 2146</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id757144c3-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id757144c4-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id757144c5-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1994—Subsec. (a). <ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322\">Pub. L. 103–322</ref> substituted “title” for “part” before period at end.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}