SEBI (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

1 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY PART –III – SECTION 4 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY NEW DELHI, JUNE 8, 2018 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA NOTIFICATION Mumbai, the 8th of June, 2018 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA (REGISTRARS TO AN ISSUE AND SHARE TRANSFER AGENTS) (SECOND AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2018 No. SEBI/LAD-NRO/GN/2018/25- 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 (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) Regulations, 1993, namely:- 1. These regulations may be called the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2018. 2. These regulations shall come into force on the one hundred and eightieth day from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. 2 3. In the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) Regulations, 1993, in Schedule III, in clause 5, in sub-clause c, the words “held in physical form and” shall be substituted by the symbol “,”. sd/- AJAY TYAGI CHAIRMAN SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA Footnotes: 1. The principal regulations Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) Regulations, 1993 were published in Official Gazette of India on May 31, 1993 vide F.No. SEBI/LE/5/93. 2. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) Regulations, 1993 were subsequently amended on: (a) November 28, 1995 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Payment of Fees) (Amendment) Regulations, 1995 vide No. S.O. 939 (E); (b) September 17, 1997 by Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) (Amendment) Regulations, 1997 vide No. S.O. 660 (E); (c) January 5, 1998 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) (Amendment) Regulations, 1998 vide No. S.O. 14 (E); (d) September 30, 1999 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) (Amendment) Regulations, 1999 vide No. S.O. 796 (E); (e) November 17, 1999 by Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 1999 vide No. S.O. 1120 (E); 3 (f) March 28, 2000 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Appeal to Securities Appellate Tribunal) (Amendment) Regulations, 2000 vide No. S.O. 278 (E); (g) May 29, 2001 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Investment Advice by Intermediaries) (Amendment) Regulations, 2001 vide No. S.O. 476 (E); (h) September 27, 2002 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Procedure for Holding Enquiry by Enquiry Officer and Imposing Penalty) Regulations, 2002 vide No. S.O. 1045 (E); (i) October 1, 2003 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) (Amendment) Regulations, 2003 vide No. S.O. 1157 (E); (j) March 10, 2004 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Criteria for Fit and Proper Person) Regulations, 2004 vide S.O. No. 398(E); (k) September 7, 2006 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) (Amendment) Regulations, 2006 vide S.O. No. 1452 (E); (l) May 26, 2008 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Intermediaries) Regulations, 2008 vide Notification No. LAD/NRO/GN/2008/11/126538; (m) August 26, 2009 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2009 vide Notification No. LAD/NRO/GN/2009- 10/15/174471; (n) April 19, 2011 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Change in Conditions of Registration of Certain Intermediaries) (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 vide Notification No. LAD/ NRO/ GN/ 2011-12/03/12650; (o) July 05, 2011 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 vide Notification No. LAD- NRO/GN/2011-12/11/21228. (p) Aug 16, 2011 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2011 vide Notification No. LAD-NRO/GN/2011-12/18/26148. (q) March 6, 2017 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Payment of Fees and Mode of Payment) (Amendment) Regulations, 2017 vide Notification No. LAD- 4 NRO/GN/2016- 17/037 read with March 29, 2017 by Securities and Exchange Board of India (Payment of Fees and Mode of Payment) (Amendment) Regulations, 2017 vide notification no. SEBI/LAD/NRO/GN/2016-17/38. (r) May 30, 2018 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents) (Amendment) Regulations, 2018 vide Notification No. LAD- NRO/GN/2018/17. ************