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[CITE: 15USC80b-6a]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
              CHAPTER 2D--INVESTMENT COMPANIES AND ADVISERS
 
                   SUBCHAPTER II--INVESTMENT ADVISERS
 
Sec. 80b-6a. Exemptions

    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.

(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.
