Act Number: 42

Act Name: The Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-09-04

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

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Economic Affairs

Section 23C: Penalty for failure to redress Investors grievances.
    If any stock broker or sub-broker or a company whose securities are listed or proposed to be listed in a recognised stock exchange, after having been called upon by the Securities and Exchange Board of India or a recognised stock exchange in writing, to redress the grievances of the investors, fails to redress such grievances within the time stipulated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India or a recognised stock exchange, he or it 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].]
Notes:
1. Subs. by s. 27, ibid., 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).
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