Sec. 1. The Board is hereby authorized to adopt a Uniform Practice Code and amendments, interpretations and explanations thereto, designed to make uniform, where practicable, custom, practice, usage, and trading technique in the investment banking and securities business with respect to such matters as trade terms, deliveries, payments, dividends, rights, interest, reclamations, exchange of confirmations, stamp taxes, claims, assignments, powers of substitution, computation of interest and basis prices, due-bills, transfer fees, "when, as and if issued" trading, "when, as and if distributed" trading, marking to the market, and close-out procedure, all to the end that the transaction of day-to-day business by members may be simplified and facilitated, that business disputes and misunderstandings, which arise from uncertainty and lack of uniformity in such matters, may be eliminated, and that the mechanisms of a free and open market may be improved and impediments thereto removed.
