Depositories & Participants - R7

Securities and Exchange Board of India (Depositories and Participants) (Amendment) Regulation, 2007 - Amendments in regulation 7

NOTIFICATION NO. 11/LC/GN/2007/ 4485, DATED 10-10-2007

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 30 of the Securi­ties and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992), the Board hereby makes the following Regulations to further amend the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Depositories and Partici­pants) Regulations, 1996, namely :—

1. These Regulations may be called the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Depositories and Participants) (Amend­ment) Regulations, 2007.

2. They shall come into force on the date of their publi­cation in the Official Gazette.

3. In the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Deposi­tories and Participants) Regulations, 1996, in regulation 7, after clause (c), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely :—

"Provided that a depository may carry out such activity not incidental to its activities as a depository, as may be assigned to the depository by the Central Government or by a regulator in the financial sector, through the establishment of Strategic Business Unit(s) specific to each activity with the prior approv­al of the Board and subject to such conditions as may be pre­scribed by the Board, including transfer of such activity to a separate company within such time as may be specified by the Board, having regard to the matters which are relevant to the efficient and orderly function of the Depository as mentioned in regulation 13.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this clause, a Strategic Busi­ness Unit shall be an organizational unit of a company with its own mission, objectives and business strategy that is given the responsibility to serve the particular demands of one business area with appropriate technological, financial and other segrega­tions."

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