Risk disclosure
32.—(1)  No commodity broker may open a commodity contract account for a customer unless the commodity broker furnishes the customer with a separate written risk disclosure document which must be in such form and manner as may be prescribed by the Board, and receives from the customer an acknowledgment signed and dated by the customer that the customer has received and understood the nature and contents of the disclosure document.
(2)  No commodity pool operator may, directly or indirectly, solicit, accept or receive funds, securities or other property from a prospective participant in a pool that the commodity pool operator operates or that the commodity pool operator intends to operate unless, on or before the date it engages in that activity, the commodity pool operator delivers or causes to be delivered to the prospective participant a risk disclosure document which must be in such form and contain such information as the Board may prescribe, and receives from the prospective participant an acknowledgment signed and dated by the prospective participant that the prospective participant has received and understood the nature and contents of the disclosure document.
(3)  No commodity trading adviser may solicit or enter into an agreement with a prospective client for the purpose of managing the prospective client’s commodity trading account or guiding the prospective client’s commodity trading by means of a systematic programme that recommends specific transactions unless the commodity trading adviser, at or before the time the commodity trading adviser engages in the solicitation or enters into the agreement (whichever is the earlier), delivers or causes to be delivered to the prospective client a risk disclosure document in respect of those purposes which must be in such form and contain such information as the Board may prescribe, and receives from the prospective client an acknowledgment signed and dated by the prospective client that the prospective client has received and understood the nature and contents of the disclosure document.
(4)  Except as may be provided by any regulations made under this Act, no commodity trading adviser may solicit, accept or secure from an existing or prospective client money, securities or other property in the commodity trading adviser’s name to purchase, margin guarantee or secure any interest of the client in a commodity contract.