---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2204–3"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2204–3"
heading: "Authority of designated employees; retroactive revocation of delegation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2204-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2204–3. Authority of designated employees; retroactive revocation of delegation


Whenever a delegation is made under [section 2204–2 of this title](/usc/7/2204–2.md), all provisions of law shall be construed as if the [regulatory function](/usc/7/2204–1.md?p=b) or the part thereof delegated had (to the extent of the delegation) been vested by law in the individual to whom the delegation is made, instead of in the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture. A revocation of delegation shall not be retroactive, and each [regulatory function](/usc/7/2204–1.md?p=b) or part thereof performed (within the scope of the delegation) by such individual prior to the revocation shall be considered as having been performed by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2).


## Source credit

(Apr. 4, 1940, ch. 75, § 3, 54 Stat. 82.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 450e of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section, and to section 516c of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.