---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 156"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "156"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/156"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Labor-Management Relations"
  - "Subchapter II — National Labor Relations"
---

# §156. Rules and regulations


The Board shall have authority from time to time to make, amend, and rescind, in the manner prescribed by subchapter II of [chapter 5](/usc/5/chptI/ch5.md) of title 5, such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 6, 49 Stat. 452; June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title I, § 101, 61 Stat. 140.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

“Subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5” substituted in text for “the Administrative Procedure Act” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

### Amendments

1947—Act June 23, 1947, amended section generally to provide that the rules and regulations issued by the Board should be in the manner prescribed by the Administrative Procedure Act.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1947 Amendment

For effective date of amendment by act June 23, 1947, see section 104 of act June 23, 1947, set out as a note under section 151 of this title.