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Rule 13a-13 -- Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Form 10-QSB

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1. Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, every issuer that has securities registered pursuant to section 12 of the Act and is required to file annual reports pursuant to section 13 of the Act, and has filed or intends to file such reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-KSB or U5S , shall file a quarterly report on Form 10-Q and Form 10-QSB within the period specified in General Instruction A.1. to that form for each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of the issuer, commencing with the first fiscal quarter following the most recent fiscal year for which full financial statements were included in the registration statement, or, if the registration statement included financial statements for an interim period subsequent to the most recent fiscal year end meeting the requirements of Article 10 of Regulation S-X, for the first fiscal quarter subsequent to the quarter reported upon in the registration statement. The first quarterly report of the issuer shall be filed either within 45 days after the effective date of the registration statement or on or before the date on which such report would have been required to be filed if the issuer has been required to file reports on Form 10-Q and Form 10-QSB as of its last fiscal quarter, whichever is later.
   
   
2. The provisions of this rule shall not apply to the following issuers:
   
   
   1. Investment companies required to file reports pursuant to Rule 30b1-1;
      
      
   2. Foreign private issuers required to file reports pursuant to Rule 13a-16 and;
      
      
   3. Asset-backed issuers required to file reports pursuant to Rule 13a-17.
      
      
3. Part I of the quarterly reports on Form 10-Q or Form 10-QSB need not be filed by:
   
   
   1. Mutual life insurance companies; or
      
      
   2. Mining companies not in the production stage but engaged primarily in the exploration for the development of mineral deposits other than oil, gas or coal, if all the following conditions are met:
      
      
      1. The registrant has not been in production during the current fiscal year or the two years immediately prior thereto; except that being in production for an aggregate period of not more than eight months over the three-year period shall not be a violation of this condition.
         
         
      2. Receipts from the sale of mineral products or from the operations of mineral producing properties by the registrant and its subsidiaries combined have not exceeded $500,000 in any of the most recent six years and have not aggregated more than $1,500,000 in the most recent six fiscal years.
         
         
4. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the financial information required by Part I of Form 10-Q and Form 10-QSB, shall not be deemed to be "filed" for the purpose of section 18 of the Act or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act.

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