[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 244 (Tuesday, December 22, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68080-68081]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-30338]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copy Available From: Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, Washington, DC 
20549-0213.

Extension:
    Form N-8A; File No. 270-135; OMB Control No. 3235-0175.

    Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (the ``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget a request for extension of the previously 
approved collection of information discussed below.
    The Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (``1940 Act'') (15 
U.S.C. 80a-1 et seq.), requires investment companies to register with 
the Commission before they conduct any business in interstate commerce. 
Section 8(a) of the 1940 Act provides that an investment company shall 
be deemed to be registered upon receipt by the Commission of a 
notification of registration in such form as the Commission prescribes. 
Form N-8A (17 CFR 274.10) is the form for notification of registration 
that the Commission has adopted under section 8(a). The purpose of such 
notification of registration provided on Form N-8A is to notify the 
Commission of the existence of investment companies required to be 
registered under the 1940 Act and to enable the Commission to 
administer the provisions of the 1940 Act with respect to those 
companies. After an investment company has filed its notification of 
registration under section 8(a), the company is then subject to the 
provisions of the 1940 Act which govern certain aspects of its 
organization and activities, such as the composition of its board of 
directors and the issuance of senior securities. Form N-8A requires an 
investment company to provide its name, state of organization, form of 
organization, classification, the name and address of each investment 
adviser of the investment company, the current value of its total 
assets and certain other information readily available to the 
investment company. If the investment company is filing a registration 
statement as required by Section 8(b) of the 1940 Act concurrently with 
its notification of registration, Form N-8A requires only that the 
registrant file the cover page (giving its name, address and

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agent for service of process) and sign the form in order to effect 
registration.
    Each year approximately 105 investment companies file a 
notification on Form N-8A, which is required to be filed only once by 
an investment company. The Commission estimates that preparing Form N-
8A requires an investment company to spend approximately 1 hour so that 
the total burden of preparing Form N-8A for all affected investment 
companies is 105 hours. Estimates of average burden hours are made 
solely for the purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act, and are not 
derived from a comprehensive or even a representative survey or study 
of the costs of Commission rules and forms.
    The collection of information on Form N-8A is mandatory. The 
information provided on Form N-8A is not kept confidential. An agency 
may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, 
a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB 
control number.
    Please direct general comments regarding the above information to 
the following persons: (i) Desk Officer for the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10102, New Executive 
Office Building, Washington, DC 20503 or send an e-mail to Shagufta 
Ahmed at [email protected]; and (ii) Charles Boucher, 
Director/CIO, Securities and Exchange Commission, C/O Shirley 
Martinson, 6432 General Green Way, Alexandria, VA 22312; or send an e-
mail to: [email protected]. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 
30 days of this notice.

     December 16, 2009.
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-30338 Filed 12-21-09; 8:45 am]
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