Section 23B
Penalty for failure by any person to enter into an agreement with clients.
The Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956
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.
If any person,
who is required under this Act or any bye-laws of a recognised stock exchange made thereunder, to enter
into an agreement with his client, fails to enter into such an agreement, he shall be liable to a penalty 1[which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to one lakh rupees for each
day during which such failure continues subject to a maximum of one crore rupees] for every such failure.
Notes
1. Subs. by Act 27 of 2014, s. 26, for "of one lakh rupees for each day during which such failure continues or one crore rupees,
whichever is less" (w.e.f. 8-9-2014).