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Section 8 · Sec. 8 ·

What this chapter is about

This part sets a rule for reading the law. Nothing in it may be read to clash with the rights that crime victims already have.

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The document says “may not be construedWho acts: United States district courtsHow: statuteSec. 8 in the PDF
What the document says

“Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this Act, may be construed to conflict with any of the crime victims' rights described in section 3771 of title 18, United States Code.”

To provide for the vacating of certain convictions and expungement of certain arrests of victims of human trafficking, Sec. 8

A rule of construction covering the whole Act and every amendment it makes. Neither may be read to conflict with any of the crime victims' rights described in section 3771 of title 18, United States Code. Section 2 makes the same point for one subsection, stating that any sentence reduction proceeding is subject to section 3771. That statute is not indexed here, so nothing is recorded about the rights it describes.

What the document actually says

“Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this Act, may be construed to conflict with any of the crime victims' rights described in section 3771 of title 18, United States Code.”

To provide for the vacating of certain convictions and expungement of certain arrests of victims of human trafficking, Sec. 8
That sentence, in plain words

Nothing in this law may be read as a clash with the rights of crime victims. Those rights are set out in part 3771 of title 18.

What this is about

This is a rule about reading, not a new job for anyone. If two parts seem to fight, this one wins. This site does not index part 3771.

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The single rule of construction the section states.

Nothing. The section runs to one sentence and that sentence is recorded here.

The section points to section 3771 of title 18, United States Code, which is not indexed here, so nothing is recorded about which rights it describes.