[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: 17CFR17.03]

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              TITLE 17--COMMODITY AND SECURITIES EXCHANGES
 
             CHAPTER I--COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
 
PART 17_REPORTS BY FUTURES COMMISSION MERCHANTS, MEMBERS OF CONTRACT 
MARKETS AND FOREIGN BROKERS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  17.03  Delegation of authority to the Director of the Division 
of Market Oversight and to the Executive Director.

    The Commission hereby delegates, until the Commission orders 
otherwise, the authority set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this 
section to the Director of the Division of Market Oversight and the 
authority set forth in paragraph (c) of this section to the Executive 
Director to be exercised by such Director or by such other employee or 
employees of such Director as designated from time to time by the 
Director. The Director of the Division of Market Oversight or the 
Executive Director may submit to the Commission for its consideration 
any matter which has been delegated in this paragraph. Nothing in this 
paragraph prohibits the Commission, at its election, from exercising the 
authority delegated in this paragraph.
    (a) Pursuant to Sec.  17.00(a) and (h), the authority to determine 
whether futures commission merchants, clearing members and foreign 
brokers can report the information required under Rule 17.00(a) and Rule 
17.00(h) on series `01 forms or using some other format upon a 
determination that such person is unable to report the information using 
the format, coding structure or electronic data transmission procedures 
otherwise required.
    (b) Pursuant to Sec.  17.02, the authority to instruct and/or 
approve the time at which the information required under Rules 17.00 and 
17.01 must be submitted by futures commission merchants, clearing 
members and foreign brokers provided that such persons are unable to 
meet the requirements set forth in Sec. Sec.  17.01(g) and 17.02.
    (c) Pursuant to Sec.  17.01(f), the authority to determine whether 
to permit an authorized representative of a firm filing the form 102 to 
use a means of authenticating the report other than by signing the form 
102 and, if so, to determine the alternative means of authentication 
that shall be used.
    (d) Pursuant to Sec.  17.00(a), the authority to approve a format 
and coding structure other than that set forth in Sec.  17.00(g).

[62 FR 24034, May 2, 1997, as amended at 67 FR 62352, Oct. 7, 2002; 69 
FR 76400, Dec. 21, 2004]