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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
To make things absolutely clear it is hereby notified that the financial statements (and documents required to be attached thereto), auditors report and Board’s report in respect of financial years that commenced earlier than 1st April, 2014 shall be governed by the relevant provisions/Schedules/rules of the Companies Act, 1956.
The matter is referred to Government for guidance as to whether the Supreme Court judgement be enforced for transactions effected prior to the date of the Supreme Court judgement i.e 26.4.2011.
On a review, it has been decided to delegate further powers to the Regional Offices of Reserve Bank of India. Accordingly, the powers to compound the following contraventions will now be vested with the Regional Offices:
