7.1. Any report sent by regular, certified, registered, or express mail of the United States Postal Service and postmarked by February 15 (or the next business day if February 15 is a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday) will be considered timely filed. Untimely reports received without the required late-filing fee will be returned to the submitting attorney, who shall continue to be deemed non-compliant until all applicable late fees are paid. 7.2. The MCLE Commission may permit amendments of annual reports of compliance through March 1 of the year immediately succeeding the compliance year. Requests for such amendments must be in writing and must provide specific details of each proposed amendment. All credits, however, must be earned by December 31 of the compliance year, unless a deficiency plan is filed. 7.3. Requests for late amendments (after March 1 of the year immediately succeeding the compliance year) may be considered by the MCLE Commission on a case-by-case basis. Such requests must be in writing and must comply with the requirements of Regulation 7.2. above. Successive requests for late amendments will not be considered without a showing of good cause. 7.4. On or before February 15 of each year, each attorney who is exempt from these rules but who wishes to receive credit for courses attended shall submit a report, in such form as the MCLE Commission shall prescribe, detailing such attorney's completion of any hours of instruction, including reference to hours earned during the preceding calendar year and hours to be carried forward for the current year.7.5. The files and records of the MCLE Commission are confidential and shall not be disclosed except in furtherance of the duties of the MCLE Commission; however, strictly statistical abstracts may be compiled from those records for public information.