---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 557"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "557"
heading: "Reference"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/557"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter XII — Transition"
  - "Part B — Transitional Provisions"
---

# §557. Reference


With respect to any function transferred by or under this chapter (including under a reorganization plan that becomes effective under [section 542 of this title](/usc/6/542.md)) and exercised on or after the effective date of this chapter, reference in any other Federal law to any [department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5), commission, or [agency](/usc/6/671.md?p=1) or any officer or office the [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) of which are so transferred shall be deemed to refer to the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16), other official, or component of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) to which such function is so transferred.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title XV, § 1517, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2311.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.

The effective date of this chapter, referred to in text, is 60 days after Nov. 25, 2002, see section 4 of Pub. L. 107–296, set out as an Effective Date note under section 101 of this title.