[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: 16CFR2.8]

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                     TITLE 16--COMMERCIAL PRACTICES
 
                   CHAPTER I--FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
 
PART 2_NONADJUDICATIVE PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart A_Inquiries; Investigations; Compulsory Processes
 
Sec. 2.8  Investigational hearings.

    (a) Investigational hearings, as distinguished from hearings in 
adjudicative proceedings, may be conducted in the course of any 
investigation undertaken by the Commission, including rulemaking 
proceedings under subpart B of part 1 of this chapter, inquiries 
initiated for the purpose of determining whether or not a respondent is 
complying with an order of the Commission or the manner in which decrees 
in suits brought by the United States under the antitrust laws are being 
carried out, the development of facts in cases referred by the courts to 
the Commission as a master in chancery, and investigations made under 
section 5 of the Export Trade Act.
    (b) Investigational hearings shall be conducted by any Commission 
member, examiner, attorney, investigator, or other person duly 
designated under the FTC Act, for the purpose of hearing the testimony 
of witnesses and receiving

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documents and other data relating to any subject under investigation. 
Such hearings shall be stenographically reported and a transcript 
thereof shall be made a part of the record of the investigation.
    (c) Unless otherwise ordered by the Commission, investigational 
hearings shall not be public. In investigational hearings conducted 
pursuant to a civil investigative demand for the giving of oral 
testimony, the Commission investigators shall exclude from the hearing 
room all other persons except the person being examined, his counsel, 
the officer before whom the testimony is to be taken, and the 
stenographer recording such testimony. A copy of the transcript shall 
promptly be forwarded by the Commission investigator to the custodian 
designated in Sec. 2.16.

[32 FR 8446, June 13, 1967, as amended at 45 FR 36342, May 29, 1980; 61 
FR 50645, Sept. 26, 1996]