Securities Exempted; Distribution of Shares by Registered Open-End Management Investment Company; Applications Regarding Joint Enterprises or Arrangements and Certain Profit-Sharing Plans

The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission') is correcting outdated cross-references in rule 602 under the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act') and rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("Investment Company Act') and correcting an inadvertent error in rule 17d-1 under the Investment Company Act as published in the Federal Register on January 22, 2003.