250.102—Effective date of rules.
Unless the Commission otherwise prescribes in any case, the manner of publication of rules of the Commission shall be by making a copy of such rule or amendment available for public inspection in the office of the Secretary of the Commission, by filing a copy thereof with the Office of the Federal Register, The National Archives, and by publication in the Federal Register. Rules shall not become effective prior to the effective date therein specified if such date is later than the date of publication. In any case where the method of publication prescribed as to any rule is other than that above specified, such rule shall not be effective as against any person who has not had actual knowledge thereof prior to the filing of a copy thereof with the Office of the Federal Register, and the making available for inspection of such a copy as prescribed in section 7 of the Federal Register Act (49 Stat. 502; U.S.C. 307).