Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) (Second Amendment) Regulations 2018

1 GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY PART – III – SECTION 4 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY NEW DELHI, APRIL 27, 2018 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA NOTIFICATION Mumbai, the 27th of April, 2018 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA (FOREIGN PORTFOLIO INVESTORS) (SECOND AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2018 No. SEBI/LAD-NRO/GN/2018/08.─ In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 30 read with sub-section (1) of section 11, clause (ba) of sub-section (2) of section 11 and sub-sections (1) and (1A) of section 12 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 and section 25 of the Depositories Act, 1996, the Securities and Exchange Board of India hereby makes the following regulations to further amend the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) Regulations, 2014, namely,— 1. These regulations may be called the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2018. 2. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2 3. In the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) Regulations, 2014, in regulation 32, in sub-regulation (2), in clause (d), the words “equity shares” shall be substituted by the words “the securities”. Sd/- AJAY TYAGI CHAIRMAN SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA Footnote: 1. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) Regulations, 2014 were published in the Gazette of India on 7th January, 2014 vide No. LAD-NRO/GN/2013- 14/36/12. 2. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) Regulations, 2014, were subsequently amended on: (a) July 8, 2016 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) (Amendment) Regulations, 2016 vide notification no. SEBI/LAD- NRO/GN/2016-17/009; (b) January 12, 2017 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) (Amendment) Regulations, 2017 vide notification no. SEBI/LAD- NRO/GN/2016-17/018; (c) February 27, 2017 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2017vide notification no. SEBI/LAD/NRO/GN/2016-17/035; (d) March 6, 2017 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Payment of Fees and Mode of Payment) (Amendment) Regulations, 2017 vide notification no. 3 SEBI/LAD/NRO/GN/2016-17/037 read with notification no. SEBI/LAD/NRO/GN/2016-17/38dated March 29, 2017; (e) May 29, 2017 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2017 vide notification no. SEBI/LAD/NRO/GN/2017-18/04. (f) July 20, 2017 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) (Fourth Amendment) Regulations, 2017 vide notification no. SEBI/LAD/NRO/GN/2017-18/12. (g) April 05, 2018 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Portfolio Investors) (Amendment) Regulations, 2018 vide notification no. SEBI/LAD- NRO/GN/2018/05. *********