[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 16, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
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[CITE: 16CFR2.12]

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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. 2.12  Reports.

    (a) In investigations other than those covered by section 20 of the 
Federal Trade Commission Act the Commission may issue an order requiring 
a person, partnership, or corporation to file a report or answers in 
writing to specific questions relating to any matter under 
investigation, study or survey, or under any of the Commission's 
reporting programs.
    (b) 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, and 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 reports 
or answers to questions issued during the investigation, study or survey 
of any matter or in connection with any of the Commission's reporting 
programs.
    (c) Any petition to limit or quash an order requiring a report or 
answer to specific questions 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 a report or answer to specific questions, including all 
appropriate arguments, affidavits and other supporting documentation. 
All petitions to limit or quash orders requiring reports or answers to 
questions shall be ruled upon by the Commission itself, but the above-
designated Directors, Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors, Associate 
Directors, Regional Directors and Assistant 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 reports or answers to questions.
    (d) Except as otherwise provided by the Commission, the timely 
filing of any petition to limit or quash such an order shall stay the 
requirement of return on the portion challenged if the Commission has 
not ruled upon the petition by the return date. If it rules on or 
subsequent to the return date and its ruling denies the petition in 
whole or in part, the Commission shall specify a new return date.
    (e) All petitions to limit or quash orders requiring a report or 
answers to specific questions, 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.

[41 FR 54485, Dec. 14, 1976, as amended at 45 FR 36343, May 29, 1980; 46 
FR 26290, May 12, 1981; 48 FR 41375, Sept. 15, 1983; 50 FR 53304, Dec. 
31, 1985]