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Summary
If a part of the chapter is ruled invalid for some people or situations, the rest of the chapter still applies to others.
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Title 29, §1139
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If any provision of this chapter, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this chapter, 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.
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This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–406, known as the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Titles I, III, and IV of such Act are classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 1001 of this title and Tables.
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Secretary authorized, effective Sept. 2, 1974, to promulgate
Regulations
wherever provisions of this subchapter call for the promulgation of
Regulations
, see section 1031 of this title.
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Citation
29 U.S.C. § 1139
Title 29 — Labor
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73