17 CFR § 300.101 - Individual accounts.

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title: "17 CFR § 300.101 - Individual accounts."
title_number: 17
title_name: "Commodity and Securities Exchanges"
section_number: "300.101"
section_name: "Individual accounts."
chapter_name: "SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION"
part_number: "300"
part_name: "RULES OF THE SECURITIES INVESTOR PROTECTION CORPORATION"
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authority: "15 U.S.C. 78ccc."
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# 300.101 Individual accounts.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in these rules, all accounts held with a member by a person in his own name, and those which under these rules are deemed his individual accounts, shall be combined so as to constitute a single account of a separate customer.

(b) An account held with a member by an agent or nominee for another person as a principal or beneficial owner shall, except as otherwise provided in these rules, be deemed to be an individual account of such principal or beneficial owner.