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[CITE: 15USC80a-52]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
              CHAPTER 2D--INVESTMENT COMPANIES AND ADVISERS
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--INVESTMENT COMPANIES
 
Sec. 80a-52. Effective date

    The effective date of the provisions of this subchapter, so far as 
the same relate to face-amount certificates or to face-amount 
certificate companies, is January 1, 1941. The effective date of 
provisions hereof, insofar as the same do not apply to face-amount 
certificates or face-amount certificate companies is November 1, 1940. 
Except as herein otherwise provided, every provision of this subchapter 
shall take effect on November 1, 1940.

(Aug. 22, 1940, ch. 686, title I, Sec. 53, 54 Stat. 847; Pub. L. 100-
181, title VI, Sec. 624, Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1262.)


                               Amendments

    1987--Pub. L. 100-181 struck out at end of first sentence ``: 
Provided, however, That any such face-amount certificate company may 
register prior to said date, as provided by section 80a-8 of this title, 
and such registration shall not operate to change or affect said 
effective date as to any such company or any face-amount certificates 
issued by it''.


                    Effective Date of 1970 Amendment

    Section 30 of Pub. L. 91-547 provided that: ``This Act [see Short 
Title note set out under section 80a-51 of this title] shall take effect 
on the date of its enactment [Dec. 14, 1970], except that--
        ``(1) sections (5)(a), (b), and (c); 8; 9(a); 11; 18; 24(a); and 
    25 (amending sections 10(a), (b), and (c) [section 80a-10(a), (b), 
    and (c)]; 15 [section 80a-15]; 17(f) [section 80a-17(f)]; 19 
    [section 80a-19]; and 32(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 
    [section 80a-31(a)]; and sections 203(b) and 205 of the Investment 
    Advisers Act of 1940 [sections 80b-3(b) and 80b-5 of this title], 
    respectively) shall take effect upon the expiration of one year 
    after the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 14, 1970];
        ``(2) that part of section 5(d) which substitutes `interested 
    persons' for `affiliated persons' in section 10(d) of the Investment 
    Company Act of 1940 [section 80a-10(d) of this title] shall take 
    effect upon the expiration of one year after the date of enactment 
    of this Act [Dec. 14, 1970];
        ``(3) sections 16 and 17 (amending section 27 and 28 of the 
    Investment Company Act of 1940 [sections 80a-27 and 80a-28 of this 
    title]) shall take effect upon the expiration of six months after 
    the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 14, 1970]; and
        ``(4) that part of section 20 which adds a subsection (b) to 
    section 36 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [section 80a-35 of 
    this title] shall take effect upon the expiration of eighteen months 
    after the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 14, 1970].''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 80a-6, 80a-58 of this title.
