---
kind: "section"
citation: "18A U.S.C. § 8"
title: "18a"
title_heading: "Unlawful Possession or Receipt of Firearms"
number: "8"
heading: "Effective Date"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18a/8"
units:
  - "Act — Interstate Agreement on Detainers"
---

# §8. Effective Date


This Act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after the date of its enactment.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–538, § 8, Dec. 9, 1970, 84 Stat. 1403.)

## Notes

### References in Text

The date of its enactment, referred to in text, means Dec. 9, 1970.