---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8898"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8898"
heading: "Restricted certificate"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8898"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part IV — General Administration"
  - "Chapter 885 — Stay of Judicial Proceedings"
---

# §8898. Restricted certificate


The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) may restrict a certificate issued under this chapter so that it stays only the taking of testimony of certain witnesses or the production of evidence on certain subjects. The proceedings not stayed may continue.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 485, § 7728; renumbered § 8898, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(10), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1837.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 7728 | 46 U.S.C. 794 (10th sentence). | July 3, 1944, ch. 399, § 4 (10th sentence), 58 Stat. 724. |

The words “The Secretary of the Navy may restrict a certificate” are substituted for the words “Any certificate * * * by the Secretary of the Navy * * * may, in his discretion, be restricted.” The words “the production of” are inserted for clarity. The words “in which event” are omitted as surplusage.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7728 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.