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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 1 — Commodity Exchanges

§ 12b. Trading ban violations; prohibition

Statutory text

It shall be unlawful for any person, against whom there is outstanding any order of the Commission prohibiting him from trading on or subject to the rules of any registered entity, to make or cause to be made in contravention of such order, any contract for future delivery of any commodity, on or subject to the rules of any registered entity.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 90–258 § 24 · 82 Stat. 26

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 12b

    Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 8b, as added Pub. L. 90–258, § 24, Feb. 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 33

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 8b, as added Pub. L. 90–258, § 24, Feb. 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 33

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 24. The Commodity Exchange Act, as amended, is amended Trading ban violation. by adding after section 8a thereof (7 U.S.C. 12a) the following new section: “Sec. 8b. It shall be unlawful for any person, against whom there is outstanding any order of the Secretary of Agriculture prohibiting him from trading on or subject to the rules of any contract market, to make or cause to he. made in contravention of such order, any contract for future delivery of any commodity, on or subject to the rules of any contract market.”

  2. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974

    Pub. L. 93–463 title I § 103(a) · 88 Stat. 1389

    Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 12b

    Pub. L. 93–463 substituted “Commission” for “Secretary of Agriculture”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 93–463 substituted “Commission” for “Secretary of Agriculture”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) By 7 USC 6, 6a, 6c–6g, 6i, 7, 7a, 8, 9, 11, 12, 12–1, 12a, 12b, 13b, 16. striking the word “Secretary” and the words “Secretary of Agriculture” wherever such words appear therein (except where the words “Secretary of Agriculture” first appear in section 5(a)(7 U.S.C. 7) or where said words would be stricken by subsection (b), (c), or (d) of this section) and by inserting in lieu thereof the word “Commission”.

    Effective date note
    For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 93–463 see section 418 of Pub. L. 93–463, set out as a note under section 2 of this title.

  3. Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001

    Pub. L. 106–554 § 1(a)(5)(tI)(s123)(a)(20) · 114 Stat. 2763

    Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 12b

    Pub. L. 106–554 substituted “registered entity” for “contract market” in two places

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 106–554 substituted “registered entity” for “contract market” in two places.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (5) H.R. 5660, as introduced on December 14, 2000.

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments1974–2000 · 2 rounds

2000

Pub. L. 106–554 substituted “registered entity” for “contract market” in two places.

1974

Pub. L. 93–463 substituted “Commission” for “Secretary of Agriculture”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1974 Amendment

For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 93–463 see section 418 of Pub. L. 93–463, set out as a note under section 2 of this title.

Effective Date

Section effective 120 days after , see section 28 of Pub. L. 90–258, set out as an Effective Date of 1968 Amendment note under section 2 of this title.

Credits

1922–2000 · 3 acts
  1. 1922Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 8b, as added Pub. L. 90–258, § 24, , 82 Stat. 33
  2. 1974amended Pub. L. 93–463, title I, § 103(a), , 88 Stat. 1392
  3. 2000Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(20)], , 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–410.
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(Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 8b, as added Pub. L. 90–258, § 24, , 82 Stat. 33; amended Pub. L. 93–463, title I, § 103(a), , 88 Stat. 1392; Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(20)], , 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–410.)

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