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 23E: Penalty for failure to comply with provision of listing conditions or delisting conditions or grounds.
    If a company or any person managing collective investment scheme or mutual fund 1[or real estate investment trust or infrastructure investment trust or alternative investment fund], fails to comply with the listing conditions or delisting conditions or grounds or commits a breach thereof, it or he shall be 2[liable to a penalty which shall not be less than five lakh rupees but which may extend to twenty-five crore rupees].
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 13 of 2018, s. 150 (w.e.f. 8-3-2019).
2. Subs. by Act 27 of 2014, s. 29, for "liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five crore rupees" (w.e.f. 8-9-2014).
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