---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1825"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1825"
heading: "Effective date"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1825"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Northern Mariana Islands"
  - "Subchapter II — Judicial Matters"
---

# §1825. Effective date


This subchapter shall come into force upon its approval or at the time proclaimed by the President for the Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands to become effective, whichever is the later date.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–157, § 5, Nov. 8, 1977, 91 Stat. 1267.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1694d of this title.

### Executive Documents

### Effective Date of Constitution

For provisions of proclamation of President relating to effective date for Constitution of Northern Mariana Islands, see Proc. No. 4534, Oct. 24, 1977, 42 F.R. 56593, set out as a note under section 1801 of this title.