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[CITE: 15USC47]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
   CHAPTER 2--FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE AND 
               PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER I--FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
 
Sec. 47. Reference of suits under antitrust statutes to 
        Commission
        
    In any suit in equity brought by or under the direction of the 
Attorney General as provided in the antitrust Acts, the court may, upon 
the conclusion of the testimony therein, if it shall be then of opinion 
that the complainant is entitled to relief, refer said suit to the 
Commission, as a master in chancery, to ascertain and report an 
appropriate form of decree therein. The Commission shall proceed upon 
such notice to the parties and under such rules of procedure as the 
court may prescribe, and upon the coming in of such report such 
exceptions may be filed and such proceedings had in relation thereto as 
upon the report of a master in other equity causes, but the court may 
adopt or reject such report, in whole or in part, and enter such decree 
as the nature of the case may in its judgment require.

(Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, Sec. 7, 38 Stat. 722.)

                       References in Text

    The words ``In any suit in equity brought by or under the direction 
of the Attorney General as provided in the antitrust Acts'' have 
reference to actions under sections 4, 9, and 25 of this title.
    The antitrust Acts, referred to in text, are defined in section 44 
of this title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of Federal Trade Commission, with certain 
exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 
1950, Sec. 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1264, set out 
under section 41 of this title.
