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[84 STAT. 1648]
PUBLIC LAW 91-000—MMMM. DD, 1970
[84 STAT. 1648]

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PUBLIC LAW 91-598-DEC. 30, 1970

52 Stan 870.

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^ 81 Stat. 511. 11 USC 104.

[84 STAT.

view to sale, or ( III) to cover consummated sales, or (IV) pursuant to purchases, or (V) as collateral security, or ( VI) by way of loans of securities by such persons to the debtor, and shall include persons who have claims against the debtor arising out of sales or conversions of such securities, and shall include any person who has deposited cash with the debtor for the purpose of purchasing securities, but shall not include any person to the extent that such person has a claim for property which by contract, agreement, or understanding, or by operation of law, is part of the capital of the debtor or is subordinated to the claims of creditors of the debtor; (iii) "cash customer" means, with respect to any securities or cash, customers entitled to immediate possession of such securities or cash without the payment of any sum to the debtor, and for purposes of this clause, the same person may be a cash customer with reference to certain securities or cash and not a cash customer with reference to other securities or cash; (iv) "net equity" of a customer's account or accounts means the dollar amount thereof determined by giving effect to open contractual commitments completed as provided in subsection (d), by excluding any specifically identifiable property reclaimable by the customer, and by subtracting the indebtedness, if any, of the customer to the debtor from the sum which would have been owing by the debtor to the customer had the debtor liquidated, by sale or purchase on the filing date, all other securities and contractual commitments of the customer, and for purposes of this definition, accounts held by a customer in separate capacities shall be deemed to be accounts of separate customers; and (v) "securities" has the same meaning as such term j^^s under section 60e of the Bankruptcy Act. (B) SINGLE AND SEPARATE FUND.—All property at any time received, acquired, or held by or for the account of a debtor from or for the account of customers except cash customers who are able to identify specifically their property in the manner prescribed in subparagraph (C), and the proceeds of all customers' property transferred by the debtor, including property unlawfully converted, shall constitute a single and separate fund; and all customers except such cash customers shall constitute a single and separate class of creditors, entitled to share ratably in such fund on the basis of their respective net equities as of the filing date and in priority to all other payments, except that (i) there shall be repaid to S I P C, in priority to all other claims payable from such single and separate fund, the amount of all advances made by S I P C to the trustee to permit the completion of open contractual commitments pursuant to subsection (d), and (ii) to the extent that any other assets of the debtor may be available therefor or as otherwise ordered by the court, all costs and expenses specified in clauses (1) and (2) of section 64a of the Bankruptcy Act shall be paid from such single and separate fund in priority to the claims of such single and separate class of creditors, and any moneys advanced by S I P C for such costs and expenses shall be recouped as such. If such single and separate fund shall not be sufficient to pay in full the