§ 250.20 - Prescribed forms and amendments.

(a) General provisions. (1) Any provision in the rules in this part requiring the filing of any application, declaration, report or other document on a specified form or upon the proper or appropriate form, means that such document shall comply with the requirements of such form and the instructions thereto, as most recently amended by the Commission.

(2) Any application or declaration unless otherwise stated therein shall be deemed to constitute a request for appropriate Commission authorizations (or exemption) of the proposed transaction or any part thereof, and the Commission may consider the transaction or any part thereof under the appropriate provisions of the act or rules, whether or not such provisions of the act or rules are specifically designated in the application or declaration.

(3) The Commission may for cause shown, authorize a modification of particular requirements with respect to the filing of information or regarding reports or accounts, or the filing of information after the date otherwise required by these rules or by the appropriate form, or may require filing of additional information; such authorization or requirement may be evidenced in any appropriate manner.

(b) Amendments. Amendments to any such document, other than amendments to applications or declarations filed on Form U-1, shall comply with the requirements of the original document and shall state the complete text of each item amended. Amendments shall be filed under cover of the form amended, and shall be marked with the suffix “/A” to designate the document as an amendment, e.g., “U-7D/A.”

(c) Form U-1 (§ 259.101 of this chapter). Applications and amendments thereto under section 6(b), 9(c)(3) and 10 of the Act and declarations and amendments thereto pursuant to sections 7, 12(b), 12(c), 12(d) or 12(f) of the Act or any rule of the Commission thereunder, shall be filed on Form U-1. Amendments shall be marked either “U-1/A” to designate the document as a pre-effective amendment or “POS AMC” to designate the document as a post-effective amendment.

(d) Certificates of notification. Form U-6B-2 is prescribed for any certificate of notification pursuant to the last sentence of section 6(b) of the Act. Such certificate shall be filed within 10 days after the issuance or sale of any securities exempted from the provisions of section 6(a) by or under the authority of section 6(b) (49 Stat. 814; 15 U.S.C. 79f), which is neither the subject of a declaration or application on Form U-1 nor included within the exemption provided by § 250.48.

(e) Matters as to which no form is prescribed. As to any proposed transactions, and any request for an order, for which no form of application is prescribed, applicant shall state the facts relied upon as the basis for any action which the Commission is asked to take, and shall furnish by amendment such other information as the Commission may require.

(f) Electronic filings. (1) Electronic filers are subject to Regulation S-T (Part 232 of this chapter) and the EDGAR Filer Manual. Any rule or instruction therein shall be controlling unless otherwise specifically provided in rules or instructions pertaining to the submission of a specific form.

(2) The terms “EDGAR,” “EDGAR Filer Manual,” “electronic filer,” “electronic filing,” “electronic format,” “electronic submission,” “paper format,” and “signature” shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in Regulation S-T—General Rules for Electronic Filings (§§ 232.10 and 237.302 of this chapter).