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[CITE: 29USC258]

 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                     CHAPTER 9--PORTAL-TO-PORTAL PAY
 
Sec. 258. Reliance on past administrative rulings, etc.

    In any action or proceeding commenced prior to or on or after May 
14, 1947 based on any act or omission prior to May 14, 1947, no employer 
shall be subject to any liability or punishment for or on account of the 
failure of the employer to pay minimum wages or overtime compensation 
under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended [29 U.S.C. 201 et 
seq.], the Walsh-Healey Act [41 U.S.C. 35 et seq.], or the Bacon-Davis 
Act [40 U.S.C. 276a et seq.], if he pleads and proves that the act or 
omission complained of was in good faith in conformity with and in 
reliance on any administrative regulation, order, ruling, approval, or 
interpretation, of any agency of the United States, or any 
administrative practice or enforcement policy of any such agency with 
respect to the class of employers to which he belonged. Such a defense, 
if established, shall be a bar to the action or proceeding, 
notwithstanding that after such act or omission, such administrative 
regulation, order, ruling, approval, interpretation, practice, or 
enforcement policy is modified or rescinded or is determined by judicial 
authority to be invalid or of no legal effect.

(May 14, 1947, ch. 52, Sec. 9, 61 Stat. 88.)

                       References in Text

    The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, referred to in 
text, is act June 25, 1938, ch. 676, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended, which is 
classified generally to chapter 8 (Sec. 201 et seq.) of this title. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 201 of this 
title and Tables.
    The Walsh-Healey and Bacon-Davis Acts, referred to in text, are 
defined for purposes of this chapter in section 262 of this title.
