[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 16, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 16CFR1.22]

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                     TITLE 16--COMMERCIAL PRACTICES
 
                   CHAPTER I--FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
 
PART 1_GENERAL PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart C_Rules Promulgated Under Authority Other Than Section 
                       18(a)(1)(B) of the FTC Act
 
Sec. 1.22  Rulemaking.

    (a) Nature and authority. For the purpose of carrying out the 
provisions of the statutes administered by it, the Commission is 
empowered to promulgate rules and regulations applicable to unlawful 
trade practices. Such rules and regulations express the experience and 
judgment of the Commission, based on facts of which it has knowledge 
derived from studies, reports, investigations, hearings, and other 
proceedings, or within official notice, concerning the substantive 
requirements of the statutes which it administers.
    (b) Scope. Rules may cover all applications of a particular 
statutory provision and may be nationwide in effect, or they may be 
limited to particular areas or industries or to particular product or 
geographic markets, as may be appropriate.
    (c) Use of rules in adjudicative proceedings. When a rule is 
relevant to any issue involved in an ajudicative proceeding thereafter 
instituted, the Commission may rely upon the rule to resolve such issue, 
provided that the respondent shall have been given a fair hearing on the 
applicability of the rule to the particular case.

[40 FR 15232, Apr. 4, 1975]