[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 17, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 17CFR230.171]

[Page 506-507]
 
              TITLE 17--COMMODITY AND SECURITIES EXCHANGES
 
             CHAPTER II--SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 
PART 230--GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS, SECURITIES ACT OF 1933--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 230.171  Disclosure detrimental to the national defense or foreign policy.

    (a) Any requirement to the contrary notwithstanding, no registration 
statement, prospectus, or other document filed with the Commission or 
used in connection with the offering or sale of any securities shall 
contain any document or information which, pursuant to Executive order, 
has been classified by an appropriate department or agency of the United 
States for protection in the interests of national defense or foreign 
policy.
    (b) Where a document or information is omitted pursuant to paragraph 
(a) of this section, there shall be filed, in lieu

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of such document or information, a statement from an appropriate 
department or agency of the United States to the effect that such 
document or information has been classified or that the status thereof 
is awaiting determination. Where a document is omitted pursuant to 
paragraph (a) of this section, but information relating to the subject 
matter of such document is nevertheless included in material filed with 
the Commission pursuant to a determination of an appropriate department 
or agency of the United States that disclosure of such information would 
not be contrary to the interests of national defense or foreign policy, 
a statement from such department or agency to that effect shall be 
submitted for the information of the Commission. A registrant may rely 
upon any such statement in filing or omitting any document or 
information to which the statement relates.
    (c) The Commission may protect any information in its possession 
which may require classification in the interests of national defense or 
foreign policy pending determination by an appropriate department or 
agency as to whether such information should be classified.
    (d) It shall be the duty of the registrant to submit the documents 
or information referred to in paragraph (a) of this section to the 
appropriate department or agency of the United States prior to filing 
them with the Commission and to obtain and submit to the Commission, at 
the time of filing such documents or information, or in lieu thereof, as 
the case may be, the statements from such department or agency required 
by paragraph (b) of this section. All such statements shall be in 
writing.

[33 FR 7682, May 24, 1968]