CITE

    15 USC Sec. 80b-6a                                          01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE
    CHAPTER 2D - INVESTMENT COMPANIES AND ADVISERS
    SUBCHAPTER II - INVESTMENT ADVISERS

HEAD

    Sec. 80b-6a. Exemptions

STATUTE

      The Commission, by rules and regulations, upon its own motion, or
    by order upon application, may conditionally or unconditionally
    exempt any person or transaction, or any class or classes of
    persons, or transactions, from any provision or provisions of this
    subchapter or of any rule or regulation thereunder, if and to the
    extent that such exemption is necessary or appropriate in the
    public interest and consistent with the protection of investors and
    the purposes fairly intended by the policy and provisions of this
    subchapter.

SOURCE

    (Aug. 22, 1940, ch. 686, title II, Sec. 206A, as added Pub. L. 91-
    547, Sec. 26, Dec. 14, 1970, 84 Stat. 1433.)

EFFECTIVE DATE

      Section effective Dec. 14, 1970, see section 30 of Pub. L. 91-
    547, set out as a note under section 80a-2 of this title.