---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 3812"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "3812"
heading: "Prohibition against delegation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/3812"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Financial Management"
  - "Chapter 38 — Administrative Remedies for False Claims and Statements"
---

# §3812. Prohibition against delegation


Any function, duty, or responsibility which this chapter specifies be carried out by the Attorney General or an Assistant Attorney General designated by the Attorney General, shall not be delegated to, or carried out by, any other officer or employee of the Department of Justice.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–509, title VI, § 6103(a), Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1948.)