8 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



SUBCHAPTER IB.— EXCERPTS FROM ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE 

 ACT AND FEDERAL REGISTER ACT 



Definitions (Administrative Procedure Act) 



5 U.S.C. 1001 



As used in this chapter — 



(a) Agency. — "Agency" means each authority (Avhether or not 

 within or subject to review by another agency) of the Government of 

 the United States other than Congress, the courts, or the govern- 

 ments of tlie possessions. Territories, or the District of Columbia. 

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to repeal delegations of 

 authority as provided by law. Except as to the requirements of 

 section 1002 of this title there shall be excluded from the operation 

 of this chapter (1 ) agencies composed of reprevsentatives of the parties 

 or of representatives of organizations of the parties to the disputes 

 determined by them, (2) courts martial and military commissions, 

 (3) military or naval authority exercised in the field in time of war 

 or in occupied territory, or (4) functions which by law expire on 

 the termination of present hostilities, within any fixed period there- 

 after, or before July 1, 1947, and the functions conferred by 

 the following statutes: Selective Training and Service Act of 1940; 

 Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended; Contract Settlement 

 Act of 1944; Surplus Property Act of 1944; Sugar Control Extension 

 Act of 1947; and the Veterans' Emergency Housing Act of 1946. 



(b) Person and party. — "Person" includes individuals, partner- 

 ships, corporations, associations, or public or private organizations 

 of any character other than agencies. "Party" includes any person 

 or agency named or admitted as a party, or properly seeking and 

 entitled as of right to be admitted as a party, in any agency proceed- 

 ing ; but nothing herein shall be construed to prevent an agency from 

 admitting any person or agency as a party for limited purposes. 



(c) Rule and rule making. — "Rule" means the whole or any part 

 of any agency statement of general or particular applicability and 

 future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or 

 policy or to describe the organization, procedure, or practice require- 

 ments of any agency and includes the approval or prescription for 

 the future of rates, wages, corporate or financial structures or re- 

 organizations thereof, prices, facilities, appliances, services or al- 

 lowances therefor or of valuations, costs, or accounting, or practices 

 bearing upon any of the foregoing. "Rule making" means agency 

 process for the formulation, amendment, or repeal of a rule. 



(d) Order and adjudication. — "Order" means the whole or any 

 part; of the final disposition (whether affirmative, negative, injunc- 

 tive, or declaratory in form) of any agency in any matter other than 

 rule making but including licensing. "Adjudication" means agency 

 process for the formulation of an order. 



(e) License and licensing. — "License" includes the whole or part 

 of any agency permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter, 

 membership, statutory exemption or other form of peraiission. 

 "Licensing" includes agency process respecting the grant, i-enewal, 

 denial, revocation, suspension, annulment, withdrawal, limitation 

 amendment, modification, or conditioning of a license. 



