---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 1861"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "1861"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/1861"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
  - "Part B — Administrative Provisions"
---

# §1861. Rules and regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/29/1802.md?p=11) may issue such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out this chapter, consistent with the requirements of chapter 5 of title 5.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–470, title V, § 511, Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2598.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 90 days from Jan. 14, 1983, see section 524 of Pub. L. 97–470, set out as a note under section 1801 of this title.