[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR783.6]

[Page 649-650]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 783_APPLICATION OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT TO EMPLOYEES EMPLOYED 
AS SEAMEN--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 783.6  Definitions of terms used in the Act.

    The meaning and application of the provisions of law discussed in 
this part depend in large degree on the definitions of terms used in 
these provisions. The Act itself defines some of these terms. Others 
have been defined and construed in decisions of the courts. In the 
following sections some of these

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basic definitions are set forth for ready reference in connection with 
the part's discussion of the various provisions in which they appear. 
These definitions and their application are further considered in other 
statements of interpretations to which reference is made, and in the 
sections of this part where the particular provisions containing the 
defined terms are discussed.