Beotion ---- 21. Investigations; Injunctions and Prosecution of Offenses.. (a) Commission may investigate and publish information... (b) Witnesses, oaths, affirmations, production of records. (c) Contumacy, refusal to obey subpena, aid of U. S. Courts and (a) Commission and Federal Reserve Board may make rules and (b) Annual reports to Congress by Commission and Federal Re- 24. Information Filed with the Commission___. (a) Protection against disclosure of trade secrets in information Application for confidential treatment... Unlawful for Commission or employees to disclose or use for personal benefit information contained in confidential applica- (a) Review of Commission orders, time for filing and applications for leave to adduce additional evidence__. (b) Effect on Commission orders of proceedings under subsection (a). 26. Unlawful Representations_. Unlawful to represent that action or failure to act by Commission or (a) Waiver of compliance with Act or rules and regulations there- under, or exchange rule required thereby, void.. (b) Contracts in violation of Act or rules and regulations void as (c) Effect of loans or credit extensions or liens created innocently 80. Foreign Securities Exchanges. (a) Circumstances under which transactions by brokers and dealers on foreign exchanges are unlawful.. (b) Circumstances under which this title is applicable to security 84. Effective Date___ ----- Different effective dates for certain sections.. TITLE II. AMENDMENTS TO SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 201. Amendments to Section 2 of Securities Act of 1933: Bection CONTENTS 202. Additions and amendments to Section 8 (a) of Securities Act of 1933.. Section 3 (a) (9); securities exchanged with existing security Section 3 (a) (10); Court approval for issuance of securities in Section 3 (a) (11); Intrastate exemption.. 204. Amendment to Section 5 of Securities Act of 1933. Section 5 (c) repealed... 205. Amendment to Section 10 of Securities Act of 1933. 206. Amendments to Section 11 of Securities Act of 1933--- (a) Section 11 (a); suitsf or untrue statements or omissions.. (c) Section 11 (c); standard of reasonableness for determining lia- (d) Section 11 (e); amount of recovery- 207. Amendment to Section 13 of Securities Act of 1933_ 209. Amendments to Section 19 of Securities Act of 1933. (1) Addition of word "technical" in first sentence... (2) Addition at end of section of a provision regarding acts 210. Securities and Exchange Commission to perform functions of Federal 211. Securities and Exchange Commission authorized and directed to study, investigate and report on work, activities, personnel and Public, No. 255—74th Cong., Approved, August 9, 1935 214. Amendment to Section 20a of Part I of the Interstate Commerce Act, Amendment of Section 8 (a) (6) of the Securities Act of 1933.. Public, No. 333-74th Cong., Public Utility Act of 1935, Approved TITLE I.-CONTROL OF PUBLIC HOLDING COMPANIES To provide for control and regulation of public-utility holding companies, and for other purposes. 3. Power to Make Particular Exemptions Regarding Holding Companies 4. Transactions by Unregistered Holding Companies.. 5. Registration of Holding Companies---- 6. Unlawful Security Transactions by Registered Holding and Sub- 7. Declaration by Registered Holding and Subsidiary Companies in respect of Securities Transactions. 8. Acquiring Interest in Electric and Gas Utility Companies Serving 9. Acquisition of Securities and Utility Assets and Other Interests. ment in such form as the Commission may prescribe, containing the agreements, setting forth the information, and accompanied by the documents, below specified: (1) An agreement (which shall not be construed as a waiver of any constitutional right or any right to contest the validity of any rule or regulation) to comply, and to enforce so far as is within its powers compliance by its members, with the provisions of this title, and any amendment thereto and any rule or regulation made or to be made thereunder; (2) Such data as to its organization, rules of procedure, and membership, and such other information as the Commission may by rules and regulations require as being necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors; (3) Copies of its constitution, articles of incorporation with all amendments thereto, and of its existing bylaws or rules or instruments corresponding thereto, whatever the name, which are hereinafter collectively referred to as the "rules of the exchange "; and (4) An agreement to furnish to the Commission copies of any amendments to the rules of the exchange forthwith upon their adoption. (b) No registration shall be granted or remain in force unless the rules of the exchange include provision for the expulsion, suspension, or disciplining of a member for conduct or proceeding inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade, and declare that the willful violation of any provisions of this title or any rule or regulation thereunder shall be considered conduct or proceeding inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade. (c) Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent any exchange from adopting and enforcing any rule not inconsistent with this title and the rules and regulations thereunder and the applicable laws of the State in which it is located. (d) If it appears to the Commission that the exchange applying for registration is so organized as to be able to comply with the provisions of this title and the rules and regulations thereunder and that the rules of the exchange are just and adequate to insure fair dealing and to protect investors, the Commission shall cause such exchange to be registered as a national securities exchange. (e) Within thirty days after the filing of the application, the Commission shall enter an order either granting or, after appropriate notice and opportunity for hearing, denying registration as a national securities exchange, unless the exchange applying for registration shall withdraw its application or consent to the Commission's deferring action on its application for a stated longer period after the date of filing. The filing with the Commission of an application for registration by an exchange shall be deemed to have taken place upon the receipt thereof. Amendments to an application may be made upon such terms as the Commission may prescribe. (f) An exchange may, upon appropriate application in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commission, and upon such terms as the Commission may deem necessary for the protection of investors, withdraw its registration. MARGIN REQUIREMENTS SEC. 7. (a) For the purpose of preventing the excessive use of credit for the purchase or carrying of securities, the Federal Reserve Board shall, prior to the effective date of this section and from time to time thereafter, prescribe rules and regulations with respect to the amount of credit that may be initially extended and subsequently maintained on any security (other than an exempted security) registered on a national securities exchange. For the initial extension of credit, such rules and regulations shall be based upon the following standard: An amount not greater than whichever is the higher of— (1) 55 per centum of the current market price of the security, or (2) 100 per centum of the lowest market price of the security during the preceding thirty-six calendar months, but not more than 75 per centum of the current market price. Such rules and regulations may make appropriate provision with respect to the carrying of undermargined accounts for limited periods and under specified conditions; the withdrawal of funds or securities; the substitution or additional purchases of securities; the transfer of accounts from one lender to another; special or different margin requirements for delayed deliveries, short sales, arbitrage transactions, and securities to which paragraph (2) of this subsection does not apply; the bases and the methods to be used in calculating loans, and margins and market prices; and similar administrative adjustments and details. For the purposes of paragraph (2) of this subsection, until July 1, 1936, the lowest price at which a security has sold on or after July 1, 1933, shall be considered as the lowest price at which such security has sold during the preceding thirty-six calendar months. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the Federal Reserve Board, may, from time to time, with respect to all or specified securities or transactions, or classes of securities, or classes of transactions, by such rules and regulations (1) prescribe such lower margin requirements for the initial extension or maintenance of credit as it deems necessary or appropriate for the accommodation of commerce and industry, having due regard to the general credit situation of the country, and (2) prescribe such higher margin requirements for the initial extension or maintenance of credit as it may deem necessary or appropriate to prevent the excessive use of credit to finance transactions in securities. (c) It shall be unlawful for any member of a national securities exchange or any broker or dealer who transacts a business in securities through the medium of any such member, directly or indirectly to extend or maintain credit or arrange for the extension or maintenance of credit to or for any customer (1) On any security (other than an exempted security) registered on a national securities exchange, in contravention of the rules and regulations which the Federal Reserve Board shall prescribe under subsections (a) and (b) of this section. (2) Without collateral or on any collateral other than exempted securities and/or securities registered upon a national securities exchange, except in accordance with such rules and regulations as 7. Amendment to Subsection (f) of Section 21 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Subsection 21 (f) is amended by inserting before the period the following: "or with any undertaking contained in a regis- tration statement as provided in subsection (d) of section 15 of this 8. Amendment to Subsection (a) of Section 23 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Subsection 23 (a) is amended with respect to acts done or omitted in good faith in conformity with rules or regulations of the Commission and the Federal Reserve Board.. 9. Amendment to Section 32 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Section 32 revised in conformity with this Act; section 32 is now "section 32 (a)"; new subsection 32 (b) added thereto... 10. Effect of this Act on Brokers and Dealers Having Effective Registration 11. Effect of this Act on Liability arising Prior to Effective Date by Reason of any Violation of Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or rules and regulations___. 12. Effective Date of this Act and Various Sections Thereof.. To amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States", approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto; and to repeal Section 76 thereof and all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent therewith. operating in interstate and foreign commerce or through the mails, to prevent acts and practices inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade, and for other purposes. |