Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 106 Part 4.djvu/874

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106 STAT. 3610 PUBLIC LAW 102-546—OCT. 28, 1992 the Commission of such emergency rule, along with a complete explanation of the emergency involved, prior to making the emergency rule effective. If the contract market does not provide the Commission with such notification and explanation before making the emergency rule effective, the contract market shall provide the Commission with such notification and explanation at the earUest possible date. The Commission may delegate the power to receive such notification and explanation to such individuals as the Commission determines necessary and appropriate. "(ii) Within ten days of the receipt from a contract market of notification of such an emergency rule and an explanation of the emergency involved, or as soon as practicable, the Commission shall determine whether it is appropriate either— "(I) to permit such rule to remain in effect during the pendency of the emergency, or "(11) to suspend the effect of such rule pending review either under the procedures of subparagraph (A) or otherwise. Reports. The Conunission shall submit a report on its determination and the basis thereof with respect to such emergency rule to the affected contract market, to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate. If the report is submitted more than ten days after the Commission's receipt of notification of such an emergency rule from a contract market, the report shall explain why submission within such ten-day period was not practicable. A determination by the Commission to suspend the effect of a rule under this subparagraph shall be subject to judicial review on the same basis as an emergency determination under section 8a(9). Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to limit the authority of the Commission under section SaO);". 7 USC 7a note. (b) REGULATIONS.—The Commodity Futures Trading Commission shall issue regulations to implement section 5a(12XB) of the Commodity Exchange Act, as added by subsection (a), no later than one hundred and eighty days after the date of enactment of this Act. Until the effective date of such regulations, any regulation of the Commission that implements the last two sentences of section 5a(12), as such sentences were in effect immediately before the date of enactment of this Act, shall remain in effect. SEC. 214. PROHIBrnON AGAINST INSIDER TRADING. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 9 (7 U.S.C. 13) is amended by adding at the end the following: "(f) It shall be a felony for any person— "(1) who is an employee, member of the governing board, or member of any committee of a board of trade, contract market, or registered futures association, in violation of a regulation issued by the Commission, willfully and knowingly to trade for such person's ovra account, or for or on behalf of any other account, in contracts for future delivery or options thereon on the basis of, or willfully and knowingly to disclose for any purpose inconsistent with the performance of such person s official duties as an employee or member, any material nonpublic information obtained through special access related to the performance of such duties.