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 23F: Penalty for excess dematerialisation or delivery of unlisted securities.
    If any issuer dematerialises securities more than the issued securities of a company or delivers in the stock exchanges the securities which are not listed in the recognised stock exchange or delivers securities where no trading permission has been given by the recognised stock exchange, he shall be 1[liable to a penalty which shall not be less than five lakh rupees but which may extend to twenty-five crore rupees].
Notes:
1. Subs. by s. 30, ibid., for "liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five crore rupees" (w.e.f. 8-9-2014).
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