THE GAZETTE OF INDIA
EXTRAORDINARY
PART – III – SECTION 4
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
Mumbai, the 6th September, 2013
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA
(PROHIBITION OF FRAUDULENT AND UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES RELATING
TO SECURITIES MARKET)
(AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2013
No. LAD-NRO/GN/2013-14/22/ 22670.─ In exercise of the powers conferred by section 30 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 (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003, namely:─
1. These Regulations may be called the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013.
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 (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003, in regulation 4, in sub-regulation (2),
(I) after clause (s), the following clause (t) shall be inserted:
“(t) illegal mobilization of funds by sponsoring or causing to be sponsored or carrying on or causing to be carried on any collective investment scheme by any person.”
(II) the following explanation shall be inserted, namely,-
“Explanation.– For the purposes of this sub-regulation, for the removal of doubts, it is clarified that the acts or omissions listed in this sub-regulation are not exhaustive and that an act or omission is prohibited if it falls within the purview of regulation 3, notwithstanding that it is not included in this sub-regulation or is described as being committed only by a certain category of persons in this sub-regulation. “
U. K. SINHA
CHAIRMAN
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA
Footnote:
1. The SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003 were published in the Gazette of India on July 17, 2003 vide No. S.O. 816 (E).
2. The SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003 were subsequently amended:-
a) on April 23, 2007 by the SEBI (Manner of Service of Summons and Notices Issued by the Board) (Amendment) Regulations, 2007 vide No. SEBI/LAD/DOP/2232/2007.
b) on December 11, 2012 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) (Amendment) Regulations, 2012 vide No. LADNRO/GN/2012-1 3/25/545 5.