---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 168"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "168"
heading: "Validation of certificates and other Board actions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/168"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Labor-Management Relations"
  - "Subchapter II — National Labor Relations"
---

# §168. Validation of certificates and other Board actions


No petition entertained, no investigation made, no election held, and no certification issued by the [National Labor Relations Board](/usc/29/152.md?p=10), under any of the provisions of [section 159 of this title](/usc/29/159.md), shall be invalid by reason of the failure of the Congress of Industrial Organizations to have complied with the requirements of [section 159(f)](/usc/29/159.md), (g), or (h) of this title prior to December 22, 1949, or by reason of the failure of the American Federation of Labor to have complied with the provisions of [section 159(f)](/usc/29/159.md), (g), or (h) of this title prior to November 7, 1947: Provided, That no liability shall be imposed under any provision of this chapter upon any [person](/usc/29/152.md?p=1) for failure to honor any election or certificate referred to above, prior to October 22, 1951: Provided, however, That this proviso shall not have the effect of setting aside or in any way affecting judgments or decrees heretofore entered under [section 160(e)](/usc/29/160.md?p=e) or (f) of this title and which have become final.


## Source credit

(July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 18, as added Oct. 22, 1951, ch. 534, § 1(a), 65 Stat. 601.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 159(f), (g), or (h) of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 86–257, title II, § 201(d), 73 Stat. 525. See section 431 of this title.