[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: 17CFR12.6]

[Page 270-271]
 
              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.  12.6  Extensions of time; adjournments; postponements.

    (a) In general. Except as otherwise provided by law or by these 
rules, for good cause shown, the Commission, or a Judgment Officer, 
Administrative Law Judge, or the Director of the Office of Proceedings, 
before whom a matter is then pending, on their own motion or the motion 
of a party, may at any time extend or shorten the time limit prescribed 
by the rules for filing any document. In any instance in which a time 
limit is not prescribed for an action to be taken concerning any matter, 
the Commission or one of the

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other officials mentioned above may set a time limit for that action.
    (b) Motions for extension of time. Absent extraordinary 
circumstances, in any instance in which a time limit that has been 
prescribed for an action to be taken concerning any matter exceeds seven 
days from the date of the order establishing the time limit, requests 
for extension of time shall be filed at least five (5) days prior to the 
expiration of the time limit and shall explain why an extension of time 
is necessary.

[49 FR 6621, Feb. 22, 1984, as amended at 57 FR 20638, May 14, 1992; 59 
FR 9636, Mar. 1, 1994]