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F E D E R A L

RES E R I E

B O A R D

STATEMENT FOR THE PRESS

For immediate release

July 29, 1955.

AMENDMENT OF REGULATION T
Amendment No. 5 of Regulation T - Effective August 8. 1955.
Subsection (e) of section 8 of Regulation T is hereby amended
by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph reading as follows:
"In the event of the transfer of an account from
one customer to another, such account may be treated by
the creditor for the purposes of this regulation as if
it had been maintained for the transferee from the date
of its origin; Provided. That, if the account be a restricted account, the creditor shall have filed a report
with any regularly constituted committee of a national
securities exchange having jurisdiction over the business
conduct of its members, of which exchange the creditor
is a member or through which his transactions are effected, reciting the circumstances of the transfer arid
stating, as of the time of the transfer, the adjusted
debit balance of the account and the maximum loan value
of the securities in the account."