[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 17, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 17CFR12.15]

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              TITLE 17--COMMODITY AND SECURITIES EXCHANGES
 
             CHAPTER I--COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
 
PART 12_RULES RELATING TO REPARATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart A_General Information and Preliminary Consideration of Pleadings
 
Sec.  12.15  Notification of complaint.

    (a) Forwarding of complaint to registrant. If, in the opinion of the 
Director of the Office of Proceedings, the facts set forth in a 
complaint warrant such action as to any of the registrants, a copy of 
the complaint, together with any attachments thereto, shall be forwarded 
by serving by registered mail or certified mail any such registrant 
named therein at an address previously designated with the Commission by 
the registrant for receipt of reparation complaints, as provided in 
Commission Regulation 17 CFR 3.30, or, if no such designation has been 
filed with the Commission, at such address as will accomplish actual 
notice to the respondent. Should the Director determine to forward the 
complaint, the complainant shall be notified of this determination at 
the time the complaint is forwarded.
    (b) Determination not to forward complaint. The Director may, in his 
discretion, refuse to forward a complaint as to a particular respondent 
if it appears that the matters alleged therein are not cognizable in 
reparations, or that grounds exist pursuant to Sec.  12.24 (c) or (d) 
for refusing to forward the complaint. If the Director of the Office of 
Proceedings should determine not to forward the complaint to all 
registrants named in the complaint in accordance with this Section, no 
proceeding shall be held thereon and the complainant shall be notified 
to that effect. If the Director determines to forward the complaint as 
to less than all of the registrants, the complainant shall be so 
notified. A termination of the complaint as to any registrant shall be 
regarded by the Commission as without prejudice to the right of the 
complainant to seek such alternative forms of relief as may be 
available.