[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 28, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 28CFR5.306]

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                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                    CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 5_ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION ACT OF 
 
Sec.  5.306  Exemption under section 3(g) of the Act.

    For the purpose of section 3(g) of the Act--
    (a) Attempts to influence or persuade agency personnel or officials 
other than in the course of judicial proceedings, criminal or civil law 
enforcement inquiries, investigations, or proceedings, or agency 
proceedings required by statute or regulation to be conducted on the 
record, shall include only such attempts to influence or persuade with 
reference to formulating, adopting, or changing the domestic or foreign 
policies of the United States or with reference to the political or 
public interests, policies, or relations of a government of a foreign 
country or a foreign political party; and
    (b) If an attorney engaged in legal representation of a foreign 
principal before an agency of the U.S. Government is not otherwise 
required to disclose the identity of his principal as a matter of 
established agency procedure, he must make such disclosure, in 
conformity with this section of the Act, to each of the agency's 
personnel or officials before whom and at the time his legal 
representation is undertaken. The burden of establishing that the 
required disclosure was made shall fall upon the person claiming the 
exemption.

[Order No. 376-67, 32 FR 6362, Apr. 22, 1967, as amended by Order No. 
463-71, 36 FR 12212, June 29, 1971; Order No. 2674-2003, 68 FR 33630, 
June 5, 2003]