SEBI (Delisting of Equity Shares) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2015

THE GAZETTE OF INDIA
EXTRAORDINARY
PART – III – SECTION 4
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 14 , 2015
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
Mumbai, the 14th August, 2015

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA (DELISTING OF EQUITY SHARES) (SECOND AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2015

No. SEBI/LAD-NRO/GN/2015-16/010.─ In exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 read with section 21A of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (42 of 1956), section 30, sub-section (1) of section 11 and sub-section (2) of section 11A of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992),the Board hereby makes the following Regulations to further amend the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Delisting of Equity Shares) Regulations, 2009, namely:-

1. These regulations may be called the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Delisting of Equity Shares) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2015.

2. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

3. In the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Delisting of Equity Shares) Regulations, 2009, in regulation 3, in sub-regulation (1), the proviso shall be substituted with the following namely:-

“Provided that these regulations shall not apply to securities listed without making a public issue, on the institutional trading platform of a recognised stock exchange.”

U. K. SINHA

CHAIRMAN

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA

Footnotes:

1. The SEBI (Delisting of Equity Shares) Regulations, 2009, were published in the Gazette of India on 10 June, 2009 vide No. LAD-NRO/GN/2009-2010/09/165992.

2. The Principal Regulations were subsequently amended on:

(a) October 8, 2013 by the SEBI (Listing of Specified Securities on Institutional Trading Platform) Regulations, 2013 vide No. LAD-NRO/GN/2013-14/28/6720.

(b) March 24, 2015 by SEBI (Delisting of Equity Shares) (Amendment) Regulations, 2015 vide No. LAD-NRO/GN/2014- 15/27/541.