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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 7 — Labor-Management Relations

§ 166. Separability

Statutory text

If any provision of this subchapter, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this subchapter, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 74–372 § 16 · 49 Stat. 449

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 166

    July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 16, 49 Stat. 457

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 16, 49 Stat. 457

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 16. This Act may be cited as the “ National Labor Relations Title. Act.”

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1947—Act , amended section generally by inserting new subject matter which was formerly covered by section 165 of this title. Section formerly referred to short title of chapter, see section 167 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1947 Amendment

For effective date of amendment by act , see section 104 of act , set out as a note under section 151 of this title.

Credits

1935–1947 · 2 acts
  1. 1935July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 16, 49 Stat. 457
  2. 1947June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title I, § 101, 61 Stat. 151.
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(July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 16, 49 Stat. 457; June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title I, § 101, 61 Stat. 151.)

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