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Administrative and regulatory agencies are created by
Congress to carry out legislation. To do their work, agencies were given the power to
promulgate regulations (also known as “rules”) and hold semi-judicial hearings.
Their orders, regulations, and decisions have the force of law.
The Federal Register Act, passed in 1935, established the Federal
Register as the daily gazette for executive and administrative rulings. All executive
orders and administrative regulations must be published in the Federal Register
if they are to be legally binding. An amendment to the Act created the Code of Federal
Regulations which arranges all effective regulation in a subject compilation and is
revised annually.
In this guide, you will find information on how to search for recent regulations that are available online, how to search for older regulations that are no longer in print, and how to locate regulations using various sources. Please see the yellow tabs above for more information on each of these topics.