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15 USC 77b. 15 USC 7^7c." 15 USC 7^7d.' Exemptions.

15 USC 77h.

15 USC 77e.

PUBLIC LAW 577-AUG. 10, 1954

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permitted under subsection (b) of section 10) shall not be deemed a prospectus if it is proved that prior to or at the same time with such communication a written prospectus meeting the requirements of subsection (a) of section 10 at the time of such communication was sent or given to the person to whom the communication was made, and (b) a notice, circular, advertisement, letter, or communication in respect of a security shall not be deemed to be a prospectus if it states from whom a written prospectus meeting the requirements of section 10 may be obtained and, in addition, does no more than identify the security, state the price thereof, state by whom orders will be executed, and contain such other information as the Commission, by rules or regulations deemed necessary or appropriate in the public interest and for the protection of investors, and subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed therein, may permit." gEc. 4. Paragraph (11) of section 2 of the Securities Act of 1933 is amended by inserting the words "offers or" before the word "sells". ^^^- ^- Paragraph (11) of section 3(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, is amended by inserting the words "offered and" before the word "sold". ^^^- ^- Section 4(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, is amended to read as follows: ^^{^) Trausactions by any person other than an issuer, underwriter, or dealer; transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering; or transactions by a dealer (including an underwriter no longer acting as an underwriter in respect of the security involved in such transaction), except transactions taking place prior to the expiration of forty days after the first date upon which the security was bona fide offered to the public by the issuer or by or through an underwriter and transactions in a security as to which a registration statement has been filed taking place prior to the expiration of forty days after the effective date of such registration statement or prior to the expiration of forty days after the first date upon which the security was bona fide offered to the public by the issuer or by or through an underwriter after such effective date, whichever is later (excluding in the computation of such forty days any time during which a stop order issued under section 8 is in effect as to the security), and except transactions as to securities constituting the whole or a part of an unsold allotment to or subscription by such dealer as a participant in the distribution of such securities by the issuer or by or through an underwriter," gjjQ 7 Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933 is amended to read as follows: "PROHIBITIONS RELATING TO INTERSTATE COMMERCE AND THE MAILS

"SEC. 5. (a) Unless a registration statement is in effect as to a security, it shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly— " (1) to make use of any means or instruments of transportation or communication in interstate commerce or of the mails to sell such security through the use or medium of any prospectus or otherwise; or "(2) to carry or cause to be carried through the mails or in interstate commerce, by any means or instruments of transportation, any such security for the purpose of sale or for delivery after sale. "(b) I t shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly— "(1) to make use of any means or instruments of transportation or communication in interstate commerce or of the mails to carry or transmit any prospectus relating to any security with