[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR451.6]

[Page 169]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
  CHAPTER IV--OFFICE OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT STANDARDS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 451_LABOR ORGANIZATIONS AS DEFINED IN THE LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTING 
AND DISCLOSURE ACT OF 1959--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 451.6  Extraterritorial application.

    (a) It is not the purpose of the Act to impose on foreign labor 
organizations any regulation of the activities they carry on under the 
laws of the countries in which they are domiciled or have their 
principal place of business. The applicability of the Act is limited to 
the activities of persons or organizations within the territorial 
jurisdiction of the United States. The foregoing would be applicable, 
for example, to Canadian locals affiliated with international labor 
organizations organized within the United States.
    (b) On the other hand, labor organizations otherwise subject to the 
Act are not relieved of the requirements imposed upon them with respect 
to actions taken by them in the United States or which will have effect 
in the United States, by virtue of the fact that they have foreign 
members or affiliates that participate in these actions. For example, a 
national or international labor organization which conducts its required 
election of officers by referendum or at a convention of delegates must 
comply with the election provisions of the Act, \16\ even though members 
of foreign locals participate in the balloting, or delegates of foreign 
locals participate in the election at the convention.
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    \15\ [Reserved]
    \16\ See Sec. 452.13 of this chapter.
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    (c) Similarly, the provisions of the Act with respect to imposition 
of trusteeships \17\ are applicable to United States national or 
international labor organizations subject to this Act even though the 
action of the United States organization is taken with respect to a 
foreign local.
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    \17\ See title III of the Act.
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