---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 968"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "968"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2205(1), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2159"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/968"
units:
  - "Chapter 14 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter V — Appointments and Assignments"
  - "Part H — Assignment of Foreign Service Personnel"
---

# [§968. Repealed. Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2205(1), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2159 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 957, title V, § 578, as added Sept. 8, 1960, Pub. L. 86–723, § 16, 74 Stat. 834, related to foreign language knowledge as condition for assignment.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective Feb. 15, 1981, except as otherwise provided, see section 2403 of Pub. L. 96–465, set out as an Effective Date note under section 3901 of this title.