[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 50, Volume 7]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 50CFR216.21]



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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES

 

  CHAPTER II--NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND 

           ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 

PART 216_REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE TAKING AND IMPORTING OF MARINE MAMMALS

--Table of Contents

 

                      Subpart C_General Exceptions

 

Sec. 216.21  Actions permitted by international treaty, convention, 

or agreement.





    The MMPA and these regulations shall not apply to the extent that 

they are inconsistent with the provisions of any international treaty, 

convention or agreement, or any statute implementing the same relating 

to the taking or importation of marine mammals or marine mammal 

products, which was existing and in force prior to December 21, 1972, 

and to which the United States was a party. Specifically, the 

regulations in subpart B of this part and the provisions of the MMPA 

shall not apply to activities



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carried out pursuant to the Interim Convention on the Conservation of 

North Pacific Fur Seals signed at Washington on February 9, 1957, and 

the Fur Seal Act of 1966, 16 U.S.C. 1151 through 1187, as in each case, 

from time to time amended.



[39 FR 1852, Jan. 15, 1974, as amended at 59 FR 50376, Oct. 3, 1994]