Insurance regulator IRDA today made it mandatory for insurers to seek prior approval in case of stake transfer to domestic entities or financial institutions and set guidelines for seeking approval. As per a IRDA circular, the regulator will carry out the requisite due diligence of the proposed transferee or shareholder prior to grant of approval for registration of transfer of shares under the provisions of section 6A(4) of the Insurance Act, 1938 and for issue of shares to the proposed transferee or shareholder.
Circular No. 36/2011-Customs In terms of the provisions of para 6.12 (f) of FTP announced on 31.8.2004, exemption was granted for 100% EOUs from furnishing bank guarantee at the time of import or going for job work in DTA subject to certain prescribed conditions to be followed by the unit. These conditions are that (i) the unit has a turnover of Rupees 5 crores or above; (ii) unit is in existence for at least three years; and (iii) unit is having an unblemished track record. Accordingly, this was implemented by issue of instructions vide para 19 of the aforesaid Board’s Circular No. 54/2004-Customs. Circular No. 36/2011-Customs
Circular No. CIR/DNPD/7/2011 In consultation with BSE, MCX-SX, NSE and USE, it has been decided that Stock Exchanges shall levy penalty specified hereunder on trading members for shortcollection/non-collection of margins from clients in Equity and Currency Derivatives segments: If short/non-collection of margins for a client continues for more than 3 consecutive days, then penalty of 5% of the shortfall amount shall be levied for each day of continued shortfall beyond the 3rd day of shortfall.
It has been decided that a variation of – 5% in weight against Registration Certificates issued for export of cotton yarn shall be allowed. Thus a variation of – 5% in weight in exports of cotton yarn against registered contracts shall not be treated as default for the purpose of imposition of penalty or debarment from future registrations.
General Circular No. 60/2011 In continuation of the Ministry’s General Circular No. 59/2011 dated 5.8.2011 on the subject cited above, it is stated that the said scheme shall be applicable to Form 52 (filing of annual accounts by a foreign company) as foreign companies are included in the scheme.
It has come to the notice of the Board that some unscrupulous importers are illegally importing pesticides under various headings of harmonised tariff by declaring their chemical names instead of both common and chemical names.
Notification no 64 of 4th August mentions that only units having installed marble gangsaw machine on or prior to 31.3.2011 and cumulative turnover of atleast Rupees Five Crores during the 5 years 2005-06 to 2009-10( whether domestic or foreign) alongwith other conditions will be eligible to apply for import quota. Intention is to only consider manufacturing turnover and it is with this intention that we have said that marble gangsaw needs to be installed in the unit on or prior to 31.3.2011.
Investment by Foreign Investors in Mutual Fund Schemes. – Currently, only FIIs and sub-accounts registered with the SEBI and NRIs are allowed to invest in mutual fund schemes. To liberalise the portfoio investment route, it has been decided to permit SEBI registered Mutual Funds to accept subscriptions from foreign investors who meet the KYC requirements for equity schemes. This would enable Indian Mutual Funds to have direct access to foreign investors and widen the class of foreign investors in Indian equity market . Circular N0. CIR/ IMD /DF / 14 /2011, Date -August 9, 2011
Attention of Authorized Dealers Category – I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to Schedule 5 to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000 notified vide Notification No. FEMA 20 / 2000 -RB dated May 3, 2000 as amended from time to time, in terms of which, a SEBI registered Foreign Institutional Investor (FII) and Non Resident Indian (NRI) may purchase, on repatriation basis, units of domestic Mutual Funds (MFs), subject to such terms and conditions mentioned therein and limits as prescribed for the same by the Reserve Bank and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), from time to time.
As and when Customs (CBEC) have conveyed their readiness to implement on-line message exchange between Customs and DGFT, Policy Circulars have been issued from time to time by DGFT indicating the names and Port Codes of such Customs Ports where EDI facility would be available. Such Policy Circulars are listed below.
