---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 C.F.R. § 274.15"
title: "17"
number: "274.15"
heading: "Form N-6F, notice of intent to elect to be subject to sections 55 through 65 of the Investment Company Act of 1940."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/17/274.15"
---

# §274.15. Form N-6F, notice of intent to elect to be subject to sections 55 through 65 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.


This form shall be used by a company that would be excluded from the definition of an investment company by section 3(c)(1) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [[15 U.S.C. 80a-3(c)(1)](/usc/15/80a-3.md?p=c-1)], except that at the time of filing it proposes to make a public offering of its securities as a business development company, to notify the Securities and Exchange Commission that the company intends in good faith to file, within 90 days, a notification of election to become subject to the provisions of sections 55 through 65 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [[15 U.S.C. 80a-54 through 64](/usc/15/80a-54..64.md)].


## Notes

### Amendments

[47 FR 10520, Mar. 11, 1982]

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 77f, 77g, 77h, 77j, 77s, 78c(b), 78 l, 78m, 78n, 78n-1, 78 o (d), 80a-8, 80a-24, 80a-26, 80a-29, and sec. 939A, Pub. L. 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 33 FR 19003, Dec. 20, 1968, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[47 FR 10520, Mar. 11, 1982]