Document ID: SEC-2013-0072-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Form N-8A
Posted Date: 2013-01-14T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 9 (Monday, January 14, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2699-2700]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-00520]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Upon Written Request Copy Available From: Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, Washington, DC 
20549-0213.

Extension:
    Form N-8A, OMB Control No. 3235-0175, File No. 270-135.

    Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (the ``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget a request for extension of the previously 
approved collection of information discussed below.
    The Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (``1940 Act'') (15 
U.S.C. 80a-1 et seq.), requires investment companies to register with 
the Commission before they conduct any business in interstate commerce. 
Section 8(a) of the 1940 Act provides that an investment company shall 
be deemed to be registered upon receipt by the Commission of a 
notification of registration in such form as the Commission prescribes. 
Form N-8A (17 CFR 274.10) is the form for notification of registration 
that the Commission has adopted under section 8(a). The purpose of such 
notification of registration provided on Form N-8A is to notify the 
Commission of the existence of investment companies required to be 
registered under the 1940 Act and to enable the Commission to 
administer the provisions of the 1940 Act with respect to those 
companies. After an investment company has filed its notification of 
registration under section 8(a), the company is then subject to the 
provisions of the 1940 Act which govern certain aspects of its 
organization and

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activities, such as the composition of its board of directors and the 
issuance of senior securities. Form N-8A requires an investment company 
to provide its name, state of organization, form of organization, 
classification, the name and address of each investment adviser of the 
investment company, the current value of its total assets and certain 
other information readily available to the investment company. If the 
investment company is filing a registration statement as required by 
Section 8(b) of the 1940 Act concurrently with its notification of 
registration, Form N-8A requires only that the registrant file the 
cover page (giving its name, address and agent for service of process) 
and sign the form in order to effect registration.
    Each year approximately 130 investment companies file a 
notification on Form N-8A, which is required to be filed only once by 
an investment company. The Commission estimates that preparing Form N-
8A requires an investment company to spend approximately 1 hour so that 
the total burden of preparing Form N-8A for all affected investment 
companies is 130 hours. Estimates of average burden hours are made 
solely for the purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act, and are not 
derived from a comprehensive or even a representative survey or study 
of the costs of Commission rules and forms.
    The collection of information on Form N-8A is mandatory. The 
information provided on Form N-8A is not kept confidential. An agency 
may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, 
a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB 
control number.
    The public may view the background documentation for this 
information collection at the following Web site, www.reginfo.gov. 
Comments should be directed to: (i) Desk Officer for the Securities and 
Exchange Commission, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget, Room 10102, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503, or by sending an email to: Shagufta_Ahmed@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Thomas Bayer, Chief Information Officer, 
Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi Pavlik-Simon, 6432 General 
Green Way, Alexandria, VA 22312 or send an email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 days of 
this notice.

    Dated: January 8, 2013.
Kevin M. O'Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-00520 Filed 1-11-13; 8:45 am]
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