---
kind: "section"
citation: "18A U.S.C. § 15"
title: "18a"
title_heading: "Unlawful Possession or Receipt of Firearms"
number: "15"
heading: "Effective date"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18a/15"
units:
  - "Act — Classified Information Procedures Act"
---

# §15. Effective date


The provisions of this Act shall become effective upon the date of the enactment of this Act, but shall not apply to any prosecution in which an indictment or information was filed before such date.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–456, § 15, Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2030.)

## Notes

### References in Text

The date of the enactment of this Act, referred to in text, means Oct. 15, 1980.