[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 61 (Monday, March 31, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15212-15213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8226]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Sunshine Act Meetings

    Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the 
Government in the Sunshine Act, Pub. L. 94-409, that the Securities and 
Exchange Commission will hold the following meetings during the week of 
March 31, 1997.
    An open meeting will be held on Thursday, April 3, 1997, at 10:00 
a.m. A closed meeting will be held on Thursday, April 3, 1997, 
following the 10:00 a.m. open meeting.
    Commissioners, Counsel to the Commissioners, the Secretary to the 
Commission, and recording secretaries will attend the closed meeting. 
Certain staff members who have an interest in the matters may also be 
present.
    The General Counsel of the Commission, or his designee, has 
certified that, in his opinion, one or more of the exemptions set forth 
in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c) (4), (8), (9)(A) and (10) and 17 CFR 200.402(a) 
(4), (8), 9(i) and (10), permit consideration of the scheduled matters 
at the closed meeting.
    Commissioner Wallman, as duty officer, voted to consider the items 
listed for the closed meeting in a closed session.
    The subject matter of the open meeting scheduled for Thursday, 
April 3, 1997, at 10:00 a.m., will be:

Consideration of whether to adopt rules under the Investment Company 
Act of 1940 to implement certain provisions of the National 
Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996 (the ``1996 Act'') 
relating to privately offered investment companies. The

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1996 Act, among other things, amended section 3(c)(1) of the 
Investment Company Act (the existing exclusion from Investment 
Company Act regulation used by privately offered investment 
companies) and added section 3(c)(7) to create a new exclusion from 
regulation under the Investment Company Act for privately offered 
investment companies that consist solely of ``qualified purchasers'' 
owning or investing on a discretionary basis a specified amount of 
``investments.'' The new rules would: (i) define the term 
``investments'' for purposes of the qualified purchaser definition; 
(ii) define the term ``beneficial owner'' for purposes of the 
provisions that permit an existing privately offered investment 
company to convert into a qualified purchaser pool or to be treated 
as a qualified purchaser; (iii) address certain interpretative 
issues under section 3(c)(7); (iv) address certain interpretative 
issues under section 3(c)(1) resulting from changes made by the 1996 
Act; (v) address investments in privately offered investment 
companies by ``knowledgeable employees''; and (vi) address certain 
transfers of securities issued by privately offered investment 
companies.

    The subject matter of the closed meeting scheduled for Thursday, 
April 3, 1997, following the 10:00 a.m. open meeting, will be:

Institution and settlement of injunctive actions.
Institution and settlement of administrative proceedings of an 
enforcement nature.
Opinions.

    At times, changes in Commission priorities require alterations in 
the scheduling of meeting items. For further information and to 
ascertain what, if any, matters have been added, deleted or postponed, 
please contact: The Office of the Secretary at (202) 942-7070.

    Dated: March 26, 1997.
Jonathan G. Katz,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-8226 Filed 3-27-97; 3:08 pm]
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