29 U.S.C. 201No employer shall be subject to any liability or punishment under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended [ et seq.], on account of the failure of such employer to pay an employee minimum wages, or to pay an employee overtime compensation, for or on account of an activity engaged in by such employee prior to , if such employer—
was not so subject by reason of the definition of an “area of production”, by a regulation of the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor, which regulation was applicable at the time of performance of the activity even though at that time the regulation was invalid; or
would not have been so subject if the regulation signed on (Federal Register, Vol. 11, p. 14648) had been in force on and after .
May 14, 1947, ch. 52, § 12 61 Stat. 89 (, .)
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act June 25, 1938, ch. 676 52 Stat. 1060 section 201 of this titleThe Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, referred to in text, is , , as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 8 (§ 201 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see and Tables.
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Transfer of Functions
64 Stat. 1263 For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of Labor, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Labor, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 6, of 1950, §§ 1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.