effective date

effective date Sec. 404. The provisions of this title shall become applicable— (1) ninety days after the date of enactment of this Act in the case of a labor organization whose constitution and bylaws can lawfully be modified or amended by action of its constitutional officers or governing body, or (2) where such modification can only be made by a constitutional convention of the labor organization, not later than the next constitutional convention of such labor organization after the date of enactment of this Act, or one year after such date, whichever is sooner. If no such convention is held within such one-year period, the executive board or similar governing body empowered to act for such labor organization between conventions is empowered to make such interim constitutional changes as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. [29 U.S.C. 481 nt] Enacted September 14, 1959, P.L. 86–257, title IV, sec. 404, 73 Stat. 535.