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 23GA: Penalty for failure to conduct business in accordance with rules, etc.
    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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