[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR216.25]

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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 
 
                      Subpart C_General Exceptions
 
Sec. 216.25  Exempted marine mammals and marine mammal products.

    (a) The provisions of the MMPA and these regulations shall not 
apply:
    (1) To any marine mammal taken before December 21, 1972 \1\, or
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    \1\ In the context of captive maintenance of marine mammals, the 
only marine mammals exempted under this section are those that were 
actually captured or otherwise in captivity before December 21, 1972.
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    (2) To any marine mammal product if the marine mammal portion of 
such product consists solely of a marine mammal taken before such date.
    (b) The prohibitions contained in Sec. 216.12(c) (3) and (4) shall 
not apply to marine mammals or marine mammal products imported into the 
United States before the date on which a notice is published in the 
Federal Register with respect to the designation of the species or stock 
concerned as depleted or endangered.
    (c) Section 216.12(b) shall not apply to articles imported into the 
United States before the effective date of the foreign law making the 
taking or sale, as the case may be, of such marine mammals or marine 
mammal products unlawful.

[39 FR 1852, Jan. 15, 1974, as amended at 56 FR 43888, Sept. 5, 1991; 59 
FR 50376, Oct. 3, 1994]