[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 16, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 16CFR2.11]

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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. 2.11  Orders requiring access.

    (a) In investigations other than those conducted under section 20 of 
the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Commission may issue an order 
requiring any person, partnership or corporation being investigated to 
grant access to files for the purpose of examination and the right to 
copy any documentary evidence. The Directors, Deputy Directors and 
Assistant Directors of the Bureaus of Competition and Economics, the 
Director, Deputy Directors and Associate Directors of the Bureau of 
Consumer Protection, the Regional Directors, and Assistant Regional 
Directors of the Commission's regional offices, pursuant to delegation 
of authority by the Commission, without power of redelegation, are 
authorized, for good cause shown, to extend the time prescribed for 
compliance with orders requiring access issued during the investigation 
of any matter.
    (b) Any petition to limit or quash an order requiring access shall 
be filed with the Secretary of the Commission within twenty (20) days 
after service of the order, or, if the date for compliance is less than 
twenty (20) days after service of the order, then before the return 
date. Such petition shall set forth all assertions of privilege or other 
factual and legal objections to the order requiring access, including 
all appropriate arguments, affidavits and other supporting 
documentation. All petitions to limit or quash orders requiring access 
shall be ruled upon by the Commission itself, but the above-designated 
Directors, Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors, Associate Directors, 
Regional Directors and Assistant

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Regional Directors are delegated, without power of redelegation, the 
authority to rule upon motions for extensions of time within which to 
file petitions to limit or quash orders requiring access.
    (c) The timely filing of any petition to limit or quash such an 
order shall stay the requirement of compliance if the Commission has not 
ruled upon the motion by the date of compliance. If it rules on or 
subsequent to the date required for compliance and its ruling denies the 
petition in whole or in part, the Commission shall specify a new date of 
compliance.
    (d) All petitions to limit or quash orders requiring access, and the 
Commission's responses thereto, are part of the public records of the 
Commission, except for information exempt from disclosure under Sec. 
4.10(a) of this chapter.

[46 FR 26290, May 12, 1981, as amended at 48 FR 41375, Sept. 15, 1983]