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 89 STAT. 104

Post, p. 121.

Rules and regulations.

PUBLIC LAW 9 4 - 2 9 — J U N E 4, 1975 " (D) has associated with him any person who is known, or in the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to him to be a person described by subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) of this paragraph; or " (E) has committed or omitted any act enumerated in subparagraph (D) or (E) of paragraph (4) of section 15(b) of this title, has been convicted of any offense specified in subparagraph (B) of such paragraph (4) within ten years of the date of the filing of an application for membership or participation in, or to become associated with a member of, such self-regulatory organization, is enjoined from any action, conduct, or practice specified in subparagraph (C) of such paragraph (4), has willfully made or caused to be made in any application for membership or participation in, or to become associated with a member of, a self-regulatory organization, report required to be filed with a self-regulatory organization, or proceeding before a self-regulatory organization, any statement which was at the time, and in the light of the circumstances under which it was made, false or misleading with respect to any material fact, or has omitted to state in any such application, report, or proceeding any material fact which is required to be stated therein.". (7) Subsection (b) thereof is amended to read as follows: " (b) The Commission and the B o a r d of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as to matters within their respective jurisdictions, shall have power by rules and regulations to define technical, trade, accounting, and other terms used in this title, consistently with the provisions and purposes of this title.". (8) The section is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (d) No issuer of municipal securities or officer or employee thereof acting in the course of his official duties as such shall be deemed to be a 'broker', 'dealer', or 'municipal securities dealer' solely by reason of buying, selling, or effecting transactions in the issuer's securities.". SEC. 4. Section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78f) is amended to read as follows: " N A T I O N A L SECURITIES EXCHANGES

Registration.

Post, p. 146.

Post, pp. 137, 146.

" SEC. 6. (a) A n exchange may be registered as a national securities exchange under the terms and conditions hereinafter provided in this section and in accordance with the provisions of section 19(a) of this title, by filing with the Commission an application for registration in such form as the Commission, by rule, may prescribe containing the rules of the exchange and such other information and documents as the Commission, by rule, may prescribe as necessary or a p p r o p r i a t e in the public interest or for the protection of investors. " (b) A n exchange shall not be registered as a national securities exchange unless the Commission determines that— " (1) Such exchange is so organized and has the capacity to be able to carry out the purposes of this title and to comply, and (subject to any rule or order of the Commission pursuant to section 17(d) or 19(g)(2) of this title) to enforce compliance by its members and persons associated with its members, with the provisions of this title, the rules and regulations thereunder, and the rules of the exchange. " (2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, the rules of the exchange provide that any registered broker or dealer or natural person associated with a registered broker or dealer may become a Inember of such exchange and any person may become associated with a member thereof.

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