---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 80a–52"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "80a–52"
heading: "Effective date"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/80a-52"
units:
  - "Chapter 2D — Investment Companies and Advisers"
  - "Subchapter I — Investment Companies"
---

# §80a–52. Effective date


The effective date of the provisions of this subchapter, so far as the same relate to [face-amount certificates](/usc/15/80a–2.md?p=a-15) or to [face-amount certificate](/usc/15/80a–2.md?p=a-15) [companies](/usc/15/80a–2.md?p=a-8), is January 1, 1941. The effective date of provisions hereof, insofar as the same do not apply to [face-amount certificates](/usc/15/80a–2.md?p=a-15) or [face-amount certificate](/usc/15/80a–2.md?p=a-15) [companies](/usc/15/80a–2.md?p=a-8) is November 1, 1940. Except as herein otherwise provided, every provision of this subchapter shall take effect on November 1, 1940.


## Source credit

(Aug. 22, 1940, ch. 686, title I, § 53, 54 Stat. 847; Pub. L. 100–181, title VI, § 624, Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1262.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1987—Pub. L. 100–181 struck out at end of first sentence “: Provided, however, That any such face-amount certificate company may register prior to said date, as provided by section 80a–8 of this title, and such registration shall not operate to change or affect said effective date as to any such company or any face-amount certificates issued by it”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1970 Amendment

Pub. L. 91–547, § 30, Dec. 14, 1970, 84 Stat. 1436, provided that: “This Act [see Short Title note set out under section 80a–51 of this title] shall take effect on the date of its enactment [Dec. 14, 1970], except that— sections (5)(a), (b), and (c); 8; 9(a); 11; 18; 24(a); and 25 (amending sections 10(a), (b), and (c) [section 80a–10(a), (b), and (c)]; 15 [section 80a–15]; 17(f) [section 80a–17(f)]; 19 [section 80a–19]; and 32(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [section 80a–31(a)]; and sections 203(b) and 205 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 [sections 80b–3(b) and 80b–5 of this title], respectively) shall take effect upon the expiration of one year after the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 14, 1970]; that part of section 5(d) which substitutes ‘interested persons’ for ‘affiliated persons’ in section 10(d) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [section 80a–10(d) of this title] shall take effect upon the expiration of one year after the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 14, 1970]; sections 16 and 17 (amending section 27 and 28 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [sections 80a–27 and 80a–28 of this title]) shall take effect upon the expiration of six months after the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 14, 1970]; and that part of section 20 which adds a subsection (b) to section 36 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [section 80a–35 of this title] shall take effect upon the expiration of eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 14, 1970].”