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[84 STAT. 1001]
PUBLIC LAW 91-000—MMMM. DD, 1970
[84 STAT. 1001]

84

STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 91-468-OCT. 19, 1970

1001

"EXAMINATION OF INSURED CRM)IT UNIONS Examiners and "SEC. 204. (a) The Administrator shall appoint examiners who shall claim agents, have power, on his behalf, to examine any insured credit union, any powers. credit union making application for insurance of its member accounts, or any closed insured credit union whenever in the judgment of the Administrator an examination is necessary to determine the condition of any such credit union for insurance purposes. Each examiner shall have power to make a thorough examination of Report by all of the affairs of the credit union and shall make a full and detailed examiner. report of the condition of the credit union to the Administrator. The Administrator in like manner shall appoint claim agents who shall have power to investigate and examine all claims for insured member accounts. Each claim agent shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations, to examine and to take and preserve testimony under oath as to any matter in respect to claims for insured accounts, and to issue subpenas and subpenas duces tecum and, for the enforcement thereof, to apply to the United States district court for the judicial district or the United States court in any territory in which the principal office of the credit union is located or in which the witness resides or carries on business. Such courts shall have jurisdiction and power to order and require compliance with any such subpena. "(b) I n connection with examinations of insured credit unions, the Administrator, or his designated representatives, shall have power to administer oaths and affinnations, to examine and to take and preserve testimony under oath as to any matter in respect of the affairs of any such credit union, and to issue subpenas and subpenas duces tecum and, for the enforcement thereof, to apply to the United States district court for the judicial district or the United States court in any territory in which the principal office of the credit union is located or in which the witness resides or carries on business. Such courts shall have jurisdiction and power to order and require compliance with any such subpena, "(c) I n cases of refusal to obey a subpena issued to, or contumacy by, any person, the Administrator may invoke the aid of any court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such hearing, examination, or investigation is carried on, or where such person resides or carries on business, in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, records, or other papers. Such Qjonrt may issue an order requiring such person to appear before the Administrator, or before a person designated by him, there to produce records, if so ordered, or to give testimony touching the matter in question. Any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof. All process in any such case may be served in the judicial district whereof such person is an inhabitant or carries on business or wherever he may be found. No person shall Privilege be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, against selfincrimination. records, or other papers in obedience to a subpena issued under the authority of this title on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture, but no individual shall be prosecuted or subject to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, except that such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying. " (d) The Administration may accept any report of examination made by or to any commission, board, or authority having supervision of a State-chartered credit union and may furnish to any such commission, board, or authority reports of examination made on behalf of the Administrator.