Section 23GA

Penalty for failure to conduct business in accordance with rules, etc.

The Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956

  • Act 42 of 1956
  • Ministry of Finance
  • Department of Economic Affairs
About this Act

An Act to prevent undesirable transactions in securities by regulating the business of dealing therein, by providing for certain other matters connected therewith.

All sections
    1[23GA. Penalty for failure to conduct business in accordance with rules, etc.--Where a stock exchange or a clearing corporation fails to conduct its business with its members or any issuer or its agent or any person associated with the securities markets in accordance with the rules or regulations mad by the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the directions issued by it under this Act, the stock exchange or the clearing corporations, as the case may be, shall be liable to penalty which shall not be less than five crore rupees but which may extend to twenty-five crore rupees or three times the amount of gains made out of such failure, whichever is higher.]

Notes

1. Ins. by Act 13 of 2018, s. 152 (w.e.f. 8-3-2019).
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