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SEBI- Master Circular for Depositories updated till March 31, 2014

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Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has been issuing various circulars/directions from time to time. In order to enable the users to have an access to all the applicable circulars/directions at one place, Master Circular for Depositories has been prepared.

Regarding Import of Pesticides / Formulations – Samples to be tested with regard to bio efficacy, human safety and for its probable effect on the soil and human life

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The Commissioner of Customs concerned should ensure that in case of import of formulations, samples of its technical grade/material is tested. For this purpose actual physical sample of such technical grade of each consignment has to be provided by the importer which will be subjected to all tests applicable to the indigenous manufacturer such as the examination of chemical composition, test with regard to bio efficacy and human safety as well as its probable effect on the soil and human life.

FIIs/QFIs permitted to invest only in dated government securities having residual maturity of one year or above

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1. Pursuant to the announcements made in the First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2014- 15 dated April 1, 2014 by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), it has been decided as follows: 2. FIIs/QFIs shall henceforth be permitted to invest only in dated government securities having residual maturity of one year or above.

Manual filing and processing of Bills of Entry / Shipping Bills – stringent checks required to prevent misuse – regarding

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As per the referred instruction, the Board had taken a serious note of the possibility of misuse of the facility of manual filing and processing of import/export documents, which was being allowed by the field formations. Accordingly, it had been instructed that this should not be allowed except in exceptional and genuine cases where the electronic filing and processing of import/export documents is not feasible

SEBi increases margin to 100% for USD-INR currency derivatives contracts

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Vide circular CIR/MRD/DP/22/2013 dated July 08, 2013, SEBI in consultation with RBI had increased the initial margins and extreme loss margins by 100% for USD-INR contracts in the currency derivatives segment.

Banks to maintain records of cross border wire transfers of more than Rs. 5 lakh

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With the amendments to Prevention of Money Laundering (PML) Rules, notified by the Government of India vide Notification No. 12 of 2013 dated August 27, 2013 and in terms of amended Rule 3, every reporting entity is required to maintain a record of all transactions including the record of all cross border wire transfers of more than Rs. 5 lakh or its equivalent in foreign currency, where the place of either origin or destination of the fund is in India.

ICSI – Minutes of the meeting with MCA held on 3rd April 2014

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Minutes of the meeting with MCA held on 3rd April 2014 A delegation of the following council members, Secretary of the Institute and four representatives of other member company secretaries had a very detailed deliberation at 3 p.m. on 3rd April 2014 with Mr. M. J. Joseph, Additional Secretary and Ms. Renuka Kumar, Joint Secretary […]

RBI allows to book foreign exchange forward contracts up to US$ 250,000 on the basis of a simple declaration

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With a view to further liberalising the existing facilities, it has now been decided to allow all resident individuals, firms and companies, who have actual or anticipated foreign exchange exposures to book foreign exchange forward contracts up to US$ 250,000 on the basis of a simple declaration without any requirement of further documentation.

Impact of Companies Act, 2013 on Private Companies & Changes in Acceptance of Deposit Rules

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CA Himanshu Sharma Introduction – By Introduction of Companies Act,2013, Ministry of company affair has brought massive changes i.e. maximum of exemptions which were available to private companies under companies act,1956 have been withdrawn, lot of changes in acceptance of deposit rules through which private companies were not allowed to accept loan from relative and […]

Test to determine whether the land is Agricultural or not ?

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The Gujrat HC in CIT v Siddhartha J. Desai 139 ITR 628 (Guj) (1983) has laid down the following tests for determining whether the land is agricultural or not: a) Whether, the land was classified in the revenue records as agricultural and whether it was subject to payment of land revenue? [ CIT vs. Smt. […]

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