[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 35 (Monday, February 23, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8241-8245]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-3830]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. IC-26353; 812-13018]


Hennion & Walsh, Inc., et al.; Notice of Application

February 17, 2004.
AGENCY: Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'').

ACTION: Notice of an application under: (i) Section 6(c) of the 
Investment Company Act of 1940 (``Act'') for exemptions from sections 
2(a)(32), 2(a)(35), 14(a), 19(b), 22(d), and 26(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 
from rules 19b-1 and 22c-1 under the Act; (ii) sections 11(a) and 11(c) 
of the Act for approval of certain exchange and rollover privileges and 
conversion offers; and (iii) sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act for an 
exemption from section 17(a) of the Act.

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SUMMARY OF APPLICATION: Applicants request an order to permit certain 
unit investment trusts (``UITs'') to: (i) Impose sales charges on a 
deferred basis and waive the deferred sales charge in certain cases; 
(ii) offer unitholders certain exchange and rollover privileges and 
conversion offers; (iii) publicly offer units without requiring the 
sponsor to take for its own account or place with others $100,000 worth 
of units; (iv) distribute capital gains resulting from the sale of 
portfolio securities within a reasonable time after receipt; and (v) 
sell portfolio securities of a terminating series of a UIT to a new 
series of that UIT.

APPLICANTS: Hennion & Walsh, Inc. (``Sponsor'' or ``Hennion & Walsh''), 
Smart Trust, EST Symphony Trust, The Pinnacle Family of Trusts, Equity 
Securities Trust, Schwab Trusts, any future registered UIT sponsored or 
co-sponsored by Hennion & Walsh or an entity controlled by or under 
common control with Hennion & Walsh (the future UITs, together with the 
above-specified UITs are ``Trusts'') and any presently outstanding or 
subsequently issued series of each Trust (each, a ``Series'').

FILING DATES: The application was filed on September 12, 2003 and 
amended on February 9, 2004.

HEARING OR NOTIFICATION OF HEARING: An order granting the application 
will be issued unless the Commission orders a hearing. Interested 
persons may request a hearing by writing to the Commission's Secretary 
and serving applicants with a copy of the request, personally or by 
mail. Hearing requests should be received by the Commission by 5:30 
p.m. on March 12, 2004 and should be accompanied by proof of service on 
the applicants, in the form of an affidavit or, for lawyers, a 
certificate of service. Hearing requests should state the nature of the 
writer's interest, the reason for the request, and the issues 
contested. Persons who wish to be notified of a hearing may request 
notification by writing to the Commission's Secretary.

ADDRESSES: Secretary, Commission, 450 Fifth Street, NW., Washington, 
DC, 20549-0609; Applicants: Peter J. DeMarco, c/o Hennion & Walsh, 
Inc., 2001 Route 46, Waterview Plaza, Parsippany, New Jersey 07054.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Emerson S. Davis, Sr., Senior Counsel, 
at (202) 942-0714 or Nadya B. Roytblat, Assistant Director, at (202) 
942-0564 (Division of Investment Management, Office of Investment 
Company Regulation).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The following is a summary of the 
application. The complete application may be obtained for a fee at the 
Commission's Public Reference Branch, 450 Fifth Street, NW., 
Washington, DC, 20549-0102 (tel. (202) 942-8090).

Applicants' Representations

    1. Hennion & Walsh, a broker-dealer registered under the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934, is the sponsor of the Trusts. Each Trust is or 
will be a UIT registered under the Act.\1\ Each Series is or will be 
created by a trust indenture among the Sponsor, a banking institution 
or trust company as trustee (``Trustee''), and, for those Series that 
the Trustee does not also serve as evaluator, the evaluator.
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    \1\ All presently existing Trusts that currently intend to rely 
on the requested order have been named as applicants. Any other 
existing Trust or any Trust organized in the future that relies on 
the requested order will comply with the terms and conditions of the 
application.
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    2. The Sponsor acquires a portfolio of securities, which it 
deposits with the Trustee in exchange for certificates representing 
units of fractional undivided interest in the deposited portfolio 
(``Units''). The Units are then offered to the public through the 
Sponsor, underwriters and dealers at a public offering price which, 
during the initial offering period, is based upon the aggregate market 
value (the aggregate offering side evaluation for fixed income 
securities) of the underlying securities plus a front-end sales charge. 
The sales charge currently ranges from 1.25% to 5.5% of the public 
offering price, generally depending upon the terms of the underlying 
securities.
    3. The Sponsor maintains a secondary market for Units and 
continually offers to purchase Units at prices based upon the market 
value (the bid side evaluation for fixed income securities) of the 
underlying securities. Investors may purchase Units on the secondary 
market at the current public offering price plus a front-end sales 
charge. If the Sponsor discontinues maintaining such a market at any 
time for any Series,

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holders of the Units (``Unitholders'') of that Series may redeem their 
Units through the Trustee.

A. Deferred Sales Charge and Waiver of Deferred Sales Charge Under 
Certain Circumstances

    1. Applicants request an order to the extent necessary to permit 
them to impose a sales charge on a deferred basis (``deferred sales 
charge'' or ``DSC''). For each Series, its prospectus will set a 
maximum sales charge per Unit as a dollar amount and/or as a percentage 
of the initial offering price, a portion of which may be collected ``up 
front'' (i.e., at the time an investor purchases the Units). The DSC 
would be collected subsequently in installments (``Installment 
Payments'') from Unitholders'' distributions on the Units.
    2. In order to ensure that sufficient cash is available to make 
Installment Payments, a Series may hold securities, the proceeds from 
the maturity or sale of which may be used to make payments. Installment 
Payments will be collected from Unitholders by withholding the payment 
amount from Unitholders' distributions on Units, from proceeds of Unit 
redemptions or sales by the Unitholder, or by reducing the number of 
Units held by the Unitholder. The Installment Payment will be passed by 
the Trustee to the Sponsor at the time it is collected. The Trustee may 
advance an Installment Payment if, for example, it is due immediately 
before a dividend or interest payment is due on portfolio securities. 
The Trustee will be reimbursed when the Installment Payment is 
collected from the Unitholder.
    3. When a Unitholder redeems or sells Units, the Sponsor intends to 
deduct any unpaid DSC from the redemption or sale proceeds. When 
calculating the amount due, the Sponsor will assume that Units held for 
the longest time are redeemed or sold first. Applicants represent that 
the DSC collected at the time of redemption or sale, together with the 
Installment Payments and any amount collected up front, will not exceed 
the maximum sales charge per Unit. Under certain circumstances, the 
Sponsor may waive the collection of any unpaid DSC in connection with 
redemptions or sales of Units. These circumstances will be disclosed in 
the prospectus for the relevant Series and implemented in accordance 
with rule 22d-1 under the Act.
    4. Each Series offering Units subject to a DSC will state the 
maximum charge per Unit in its prospectus. In addition, the prospectus 
for such Series will include the table required by item 3 of Form N-1A 
(modified as appropriate to reflect the difference between UITs and 
open-end management investment companies) and a schedule setting forth 
the number and date of each Installment Payment, along with the 
duration of the collection period. The prospectus for that Series also 
will disclose that portfolio securities may be sold to pay an 
Installment Payment if distribution income is insufficient, and that 
securities will be sold pro rata or a specific security will be 
designated for sale.

B. Exchange Privilege, Rollover Privilege, and Conversion Offer

    1. Applicants propose to offer an exchange privilege to Unitholders 
of the Trusts at a reduced sales charge (``Exchange Privilege''). 
Unitholders would be able to exchange any or all of their Units in a 
Series of a Trust for Units in one or more available Series of the 
Trusts (``Exchange Series''). Applicants also propose a conversion 
offer (``Conversion Offer'') pursuant to which Unitholders may elect to 
redeem Units of any Series in which there is no active secondary market 
(``Redemption Series'') and apply the proceeds to the purchase of 
available Units of one or more Series of the Trusts (``Conversion 
Series''). In addition, applicants propose to offer a rollover 
privilege to Unitholders of the Trusts at a reduced sales charge 
(``Rollover Privilege''). Unitholders would be able to ``roll over'' 
their Units in a Series which is terminating (``Terminating Series'') 
for Units in one or more new Series of the Trusts (``Rollover 
Series'').
    2. To exercise the Exchange Privilege or Rollover Privilege, a 
Unitholder must notify the Sponsor. In order to exercise the Conversion 
Offer, a Unitholder must notify his or her retail broker. The 
Conversion Offer will be handled entirely through the Unitholder's 
retail broker and the retail broker must tender the Units to the 
Trustee of the Redemption Series for redemption and then apply the 
proceeds toward the purchase of Units of a Conversion Series. Exercise 
of the Exchange Privilege or Rollover Privilege is subject to the 
following conditions: (i) The Sponsor must be maintaining a secondary 
market in Units of the available Exchange Series or Rollover Series; 
(ii) at the time of the Unitholder's election to participate, there 
must be Units of the Exchange Series or Rollover Series to be acquired 
available for sale, either under the initial primary distribution or in 
the Sponsor's secondary market; (iii) exchanges will be in whole Units 
only; and (iv) for certain Series, Units may be obtained in blocks of 
certain sizes only.
    3. Unitholders who wish to exchange Units under the Exchange 
Privilege, the Rollover Privilege or the Conversion Offer within the 
first five months of purchase will not be eligible for the reduced 
sales charge. Such Unitholders will be charged a sales load equal to 
the greater of: (i) The reduced sales load, or (ii) an amount which, 
when added to the sales charge paid by the Unitholder upon his or her 
original purchase of Units of the applicable Series, would equal the 
sales charge applicable to the direct purchase of the newly acquired 
Units, determined as of the date of purchase.

C. Purchase and Sale Transactions Between a Terminating Series and a 
New Series

    1. Certain Terminating Series will have a date (``Rollover Date'') 
by which Unitholders of that Series may, at their option, redeem their 
Units and receive in return Units of a subsequent Series of the same 
type (``New Series''). The New Series will be created on or about the 
Rollover Date and will have a portfolio that contains securities, many, 
if not all, of which are actively traded (i.e., have had an average 
daily trading volume in the preceding six months of at least 500 shares 
equal in value to at least U.S. $25,000) on an exchange (a ``Qualified 
Exchange'') that is either (i) a national securities exchange that 
meets the qualifications of section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 
1934, (ii) a foreign securities exchange meeting the qualifications set 
forth in the proposed amendments to rule 12d3-1(d)(6) under the Act \2\ 
and releasing daily closing prices or (iii) the Nasdaq-National Market 
System (securities meeting the preceding tests are referred to as 
``Qualified Securities'').
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    \2\ Investment Company Act Rel. No. 17096 (Aug. 3, 1989) 
(proposing amendments to Rule 12d3-1). The proposed amended rule 
defined a ``Qualified Foreign Exchange'' as a stock exchange in a 
country other than the United States where: (i) Trading generally 
occurred at least four days per week, (ii) there were limited 
restrictions on the ability of acquiring companies to trade their 
holdings on the exchange, (iii) the exchange had a trading volume in 
stocks for the previous year of at least U.S. $7.5 billion, and (iv) 
the exchange had a turnover ratio for the preceding year of at least 
20% of its market capitalization. The version of the amended rule 
that was adopted did not include the part of the proposed amendment 
defining the term ``Qualified Foreign Exchange.''
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    2. Applicants anticipate that there will be some overlap in the 
Qualified Securities selected for the portfolios of a Terminating 
Series and the related New Series. Absent the requested relief, a 
Terminating Series would, upon termination, sell its Qualified 
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on the applicable Qualified Exchange. Likewise, a New Series would 
acquire its Qualified Securities on the applicable Qualified Exchange. 
This procedure would result in Unitholders of both the Terminating 
Series and the New Series incurring brokerage commissions on the same 
Qualified Securities. Applicants accordingly request an order to the 
extent necessary to permit a Terminating Series to sell its Qualified 
Securities to a New Series and to permit the New Series to purchases 
those securities.

Applicants' Legal Analysis

A. DSC and Waiver of DSC Under Certain Circumstances

    1. Section 4(2) of the Act defines a ``unit investment trust'' as 
an investment company that issues only redeemable securities. Section 
2(a)(32) of the Act defines a ``redeemable security'' as a security 
that, upon its presentation to the issuer, enables the holder to 
receive approximately his or her proportionate share of the issuer's 
current net assets or the cash equivalent of those assets. Rule 22c-1 
under the Act requires that the price of a redeemable security issued 
by a registered investment company for purposes of sale, redemption or 
repurchase be based on the security's current net asset value 
(``NAV''). Because the collection of any unpaid DSC may cause a 
redeeming Unitholder to receive an amount less than the NAV of the 
redeemed Units, applicants request relief from section 2(a)(32) and 
rule 22c-1.
    2. Section 22(d) of the Act and rule 22d-1 under the Act require a 
registered investment company and its principal underwriter and dealers 
to sell securities only at the current public offering price described 
in the investment company's prospectus, with the exception of sales of 
redeemable securities at prices that reflect scheduled variations in 
the sales load. Section 2(a)(35) of the Act defines the term ``sales 
load'' as the difference between the sales price and the portion of the 
proceeds invested by the depositor or trustee. Applicants request 
relief from sections 2(a)(35) and 22(d) to permit waivers, deferrals or 
other scheduled variations of the sales load.
    3. Under section 6(c) of the Act, the Commission may exempt classes 
of transactions, if and to the extent that such exemption is necessary 
or appropriate in the public interest and consistent with the 
protection of investors and the purposes fairly intended by the policy 
and provisions of the Act. Applicants state that their proposal meets 
the standards of section 6(c). Applicants state that the provisions of 
section 22(d) are intended to prevent (i) riskless trading in 
investment company securities due to backward pricing, (ii) disruption 
of orderly distribution by dealers selling shares at a discount, and 
(iii) discrimination among investors resulting from different prices 
charged to different investors. Applicants assert that the proposed DSC 
program will present none of these abuses. Applicants further state 
that all scheduled variations in the sales load will be disclosed in 
the prospectus of each Series and applied uniformly to all investors, 
and that applicants will comply with all the conditions set forth in 
rule 22d-1.
    4. Section 26(a)(2)(C) of the Act, in relevant part, prohibits a 
trustee or custodian of a UIT from collecting from the trust as an 
expense any payment to the trust's depositor or principal underwriter. 
Because the Trustee's payment of the DSC to the Sponsor may be deemed 
to be an expense under section 26(a)(2)(C), applicants request relief 
under section 6(c) from section 26(a)(2)(C) to the extent necessary to 
permit the Trustee to collect Installment Payments and disburse them to 
the Sponsor. Applicants submit that the relief is appropriate because 
the DSC is more properly characterized as a sales load.

B. Exchange Privilege, Conversion Offer and Rollover Privilege

    1. Sections 11(a) and (c) of the Act prohibit any offer of exchange 
by a UIT for the securities of another investment company unless the 
terms of the offer have been approved in advance by the Commission. 
Applicants request an order under sections 11(a) and 11(c) for 
Commission approval of the Exchange Privilege, the Conversion Offer and 
the Rollover Privilege.
    2. Applicants state that the Exchange Privilege and Rollover 
Privilege provide investors with a convenient means of transferring 
their interests at a reduced sales charge into Exchange Series and 
Rollover Series which suit their current investment objectives. 
Further, applicants state that the Conversion Offer provides 
Unitholders of a Series in which there is no active secondary market to 
redeem those Units and invest the proceeds at a reduced sales charge 
into Units of the Conversion Series in which there is an active 
secondary market. Applicants state that absent the Exchange Privilege, 
Rollover Privilege and Conversion Offer, Unitholders would be required 
to dispose of their Units, either in the secondary market (in the case 
of the Exchange Privilege and Rollover Privilege) or through 
redemption, and to reinvest, at the then fully applicable sales charge, 
into the chosen Series.
    3. Applicants represent that Unitholders will not be induced or 
encouraged to participate in the Exchange Privilege, Rollover 
Privilege, or Conversion Offer through an active advertising or sale 
campaign. The Sponsor recognizes its responsibility to its investors 
against generating excessive commissions through churning and asserts 
that the sales charge collected will not be a significant economic 
incentive to salesmen to promote inappropriately the Exchange 
Privilege, Rollover Privilege or the Conversion Offer. Applicants state 
that the reduced sales charge will fairly and adequately compensate the 
Sponsor and the participating underwriters and brokers for their 
services and expenses in connection with the administration of the 
programs. Applicants further believe that the Exchange Privilege, 
Rollover Privilege, and Conversion Offer are appropriate in the public 
interest and consistent with the protection of investors and the 
purposes fairly intended by the policy and provisions of the Act.

C. Purchase and Sale Transactions Between a Terminating Series and a 
New Series

    1. Section 17(a) of the Act prohibits an affiliated person of a 
registered investment company from selling securities to, or purchasing 
securities from, the company. Section 2(a)(3) of the Act defines an 
``affiliated person'' of another person to include any person directly 
or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with 
the other person. Hennion & Walsh is or will be the sponsor of each 
Series. Since the sponsor of a Series may be deemed to control the 
Series, all of the Series may be deemed to be affiliated persons of 
each other.
    2. Rule 17a-7 under the Act was designed to permit registered 
investment companies which might be deemed affiliated persons by reason 
of common investment advisers, directors and/or officers, to purchase 
securities from or sell securities to one another at an independently 
determined price, provided that certain conditions are met. Paragraph 
(e) of the rule requires an investment company's board of directors 
(``Board'') to adopt and monitor procedures to assure compliance with 
the rule. Paragraph (f) of the rule requires that: (i) Directors who 
are not interested persons under section 2(a)(19) of the Act constitute 
a majority of the Board; (ii) such directors

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select and nominate any other directors who are not interested persons 
under the Act; and (iii) any legal counsel for such directors be an 
``independent legal counsel,'' as defined in rule 0-1(a)(6) under the 
Act. Because UITs do not have Boards, the Series would be unable to 
comply with these requirements. Applicants represent that they will 
comply with all of the provisions of rule 17a-7, other than paragraphs 
(e) and (f).
    3. Section 17(b) of the Act provides that the Commission will 
exempt a proposed transaction from section 17(a) if evidence 
establishes that: (i) The terms of the transaction are reasonable and 
fair and do not involve overreaching; (ii) the transaction is 
consistent with the policies of each registered investment company 
involved; and (iii) the transaction is consistent with the general 
purposes of the Act. Applicants request relief under sections 6(c) and 
17(b) to permit a Terminating Series to sell Qualified Securities to a 
New Series and permit the New Series to purchase the Qualified 
Securities.
    4. Applicants believe that the proposed transactions satisfy the 
requirements of sections 6(c) and 17(b). Applicants represent that 
purchases and sales between the Terminating and New Series will be 
consistent with the policies of each Series. Applicants further state 
that permitting the proposed transactions would result in savings on 
brokerage fees for the Terminating and New Series.
    5. Applicants state that the condition that the Qualified 
Securities must be actively traded on a Qualified Exchange protects 
against overreaching. In addition, applicants state that the Sponsor 
will certify to the Trustee, within five days of each sale of Qualified 
Securities from a Terminating Series to a New Series: (i) That the 
transaction is consistent with the policy of both the Terminating 
Series and the New Series, as recited in their respective registration 
statements and reports filed under the Act; (ii) the date of the 
transaction; and (iii) the closing sales price on the Qualified 
Exchange for the sale date of the Qualified Securities. The Trustee 
will then countersign the certificate, unless, in the unlikely event 
that the Trustee disagrees with the closing sales price listed on the 
certificate, the Trustee immediately informs the Sponsor orally of such 
disagreement and returns the certificate within five days to the 
Sponsor with corrections duly noted. Upon the Sponsor's receipt of a 
corrected certificate, if the Sponsor can verify the corrected price by 
reference to an independently published list of closing sales prices 
for the date of the transactions, the Sponsor will ensure that the 
price of the Units of the New Series, and the distributions to 
Unitholders of the Terminating Series, accurately reflect the corrected 
price. To the extent that the Sponsor disagrees with the Trustee's 
corrected price, the Sponsor and the Trustee will jointly determine the 
correct sales price by reference to a mutually agreeable, independently 
published list of closing sales prices for the date of the transaction.

C. Net Worth Requirements

    1. Section 14(a) of the Act requires that registered investment 
companies have $100,000 of net worth prior to making a public offering. 
Applicants believe that each Series will comply with this requirement 
because the Sponsor will deposit substantially more than $100,000 of 
debt and/or equity securities, depending on the objective of the 
particular Series. Applicants assert, however, that the Commission has 
interpreted section 14(a) as requiring that the initial capital 
investment in an investment company be made without any intention to 
dispose of the investment. Applicants state that, under this 
interpretation, a Series would not satisfy section 14(a) because of the 
Sponsor's intention to sell all of the Units of the Series.
    2. Rule 14a-3 under the Act exempts UITs from section 14(a) if 
certain conditions are met, including that the UIT invest only in 
``eligible trust securities,'' as defined in the rule. Applicants 
submit that they may not rely on rule 14a-3 because certain Series 
(collectively, ``Equity Series'') may invest in equity securities which 
do not satisfy the definition of eligible trust securities.
    3. Consequently, applicants seek an exemption under section 6(c) of 
the Act to exempt the Equity Series from the net worth requirement of 
section 14(a) of the Act. Applicants state that the Series and the 
Sponsor will comply in all respects with the requirements of rule 14a-
3, except that the Equity Series will not restrict their portfolio 
investments to ``eligible trust securities.''

D. Capital Gains Distribution

    Section 19(b) of the Act and rule 19b-1 under the Act provide that, 
except under limited circumstances, no registered investment company 
may distribute long-term gains more than once every twelve months. Rule 
19b-1(c), under certain circumstances, except a UIT investing in 
``eligible trust securities'' (as defined in rule 14a-3) from the 
requirements of rule 19b-1. Because the Equity Series do not limit 
their investments to ``eligible trust securities,'' the Equity Series 
do not qualify for the exemption in paragraph (c) of rule 19b-1. 
Therefore, applicants request an exemption under section 6(c) from 
section 19(b) and rule 19b-1 to the extent necessary to permit capital 
gains earned in connection with the sale of portfolio securities to be 
distributed to Unitholders along with the Equity Series' regular 
distributions. Applicants state that their proposal meets the standards 
of section 6(c). Applicants assert that any sale of portfolio 
securities would be triggered by the need to meet Series' expenses, 
Installment Payments or by requests to redeem Units, events over which 
the Sponsor and the Equity Series have no control. Applicants further 
state that, because principal distributions must be clearly indicated 
in accompanying reports to Unitholders as a return of principal and 
will be relatively small in comparison to normal dividend 
distributions, there is little danger of confusion from failure to 
differentiate among distributions.

Applicants' Conditions

    Applicants agree that any order granting the requested relief will 
be subject to the following conditions:

A. DSC and Waiver of DSC Under Certain Circumstances

    1. Each Series offering Units subject to a DSC will include in its 
prospectus the disclosure required in Form N-1A relating to deferred 
sales charges, modified as appropriate to reflect the differences 
between UITs and open-end investment companies, and a schedule setting 
forth the number and date of each installment payment.
    2. Any DSC imposed on Units issued by a Series will comply with the 
requirements of subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3) of rule 6c-10(a) under 
the Act.

B. Exchange Privilege, Conversion Offer and Rollover Privilege

    1. The prospectus of each Series offering exchanges, rollovers, or 
conversions and any sales literature or advertising that mentions the 
existence of the Exchange Privilege, Conversion Offer or Rollover 
Privilege will disclose that the Exchange Privilege, Conversion Offer 
or Rollover Privilege is subject to modification, termination or 
suspension without notice, except in limited cases.
    2. Whenever the Exchange Privilege, Conversion Offer or Rollover 
Privilege is to be terminated or its terms are to be amended 
materially, any holder of a security subject to that privilege will be 
given prominent notice of the

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impending termination or amendment at least 60 days prior to the date 
of termination or the effective date of the amendment, provided that: 
(a) No such notice need be given if the only material effect of an 
amendment is to reduce or eliminate the sales charge payable at the 
time of an exchange, to make one or more New Series eligible for the 
Exchange Privilege, Conversion Offer or Rollover Privilege, or to 
delete a Series which has terminated; and (b) no notice need be given 
if, under extraordinary circumstances, either (i) there is a suspension 
of the redemption of Units of the Series under section 22(e) of the Act 
and the rules and regulations promulgated under that section, or (ii) a 
Series temporarily delays or ceases the sale of its Units because it is 
unable to invest amounts effectively in accordance with applicable 
investment objectives, policies, and restrictions.
    3. An investor who purchases Units under the Exchange Privilege, 
Conversion Offer or Rollover Privilege will pay a lower sales charge 
than that which would be paid for the Units by a new investor.

D. Net Worth Requirements

    Applicants will comply in all respects with the requirements of 
rule 14a-3, except that the Series will not restrict their portfolio 
investments to ``eligible trust securities.''

E. Purchase and Sale Transactions Between a Terminating Series and a 
New Series

    1. Each sale of Qualified Securities by a Terminating Series to a 
New Series will be effected at the closing price of the securities sold 
on a Qualified Exchange on the sale date, without any brokerage charges 
or other remuneration except customary transfer fees, if any.
    2. The nature and conditions of such transactions will be fully 
disclosed to investors in the appropriate prospectus of each 
Terminating Series and New Series.
    3. The Trustee of each Terminating Series and New Series will 
review the procedures discussed in the application relating to the sale 
of securities from a Terminating Series and the purchase of those 
securities for deposit in a New Series, and make such changes to the 
procedures as the Trustee deems necessary to ensure compliance with 
paragraphs (a) through (d) of rule 17a-7.
    4. A written copy of these procedures and a written record of each 
transaction pursuant to this order will be maintained as provided in 
rule 17a-7(g).

    For the Commission, by the Division of Investment Management, 
under delegated authority.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
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