---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 4.1"
title: "28"
number: "4.1"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/4.1"
---

# §4.1. Definitions.


As used in this part:

- (a) Labor Act means the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 519).
- (b) Pension Act means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (Pub. L. 93-406) (88 Stat. 829).
- (c) Acts means both of the above statutes.
- (d) Commission means the United States Parole Commission.
- (e) Secretary means the Secretary of Labor or his designee.
- (f) For proceedings under the “Labor Act”
  - (1) Employer means the labor organization, or person engaged in an industry or activity affecting commerce, or group or association of employers dealing with any labor organization, which an applicant under [§ 4.2](/cfr/28/4.2.md) desires to serve in a capacity for which he is ineligible under [section 504(a)](/cfr/28/504.md?p=a) of the “Labor Act”.
  - (2) All other terms used in this part shall have the same meaning as identical or comparable terms when those terms are used in the “Labor Act”.
- (g) For proceedings under the “Pension Act”
  - (1) Employer means the employee benefit plan with which an applicant under [§ 4.2](/cfr/28/4.2.md) desires to serve in a capacity for which he is ineligible under [section 411(a)](/cfr/28/411.md?p=a) of the “Pension Act” ([29 U.S.C. section 1111](/usc/29/1111.md)).
  - (2) All other terms used in this part shall have the same meaning as identical or comparable terms when those terms are used in the “Pension Act”.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 504, 606, 73 Stat. 536, 540 (29 U.S.C. 504, 526); and secs. 411, 507a, 88 Stat. 887, 894 (29 U.S.C. 1111, 1137).

### Source

Source: 44 FR 6890, Feb. 2, 1979, unless otherwise noted.