SEBI issues Master Circular on Surveillance of Securities Market

SEBI issues Master Circular on Surveillance of Securities Market

MASTER CIRCULAR

SEBI/HO/ISD/ISD-PoD-2/P/CIR/2024/126

September 23, 2024

To
1. All Recognized Stock Exchanges
2. All Depositories
3. All Listed Companies
4. All Market Intermediaries (MIs) registered with SEBI under Section 12 of the SEBI Act, 1992
5. Fiduciaries as per Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015

Dear Sir/Madam,

Sub: Master Circular on Surveillance of Securities Market

1. Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has been issuing various circulars from time to time pertaining to effective surveillance of the securities market. A Master Circular in the form of a compilation of provisions of all the relevant circulars, was last issued on this subject on March 23, 2023. In order to ensure availability of consolidated information contained in all the circulars pertaining to surveillance of securities market at one place, the provisions of the relevant circulars have been consolidated in this Master Circular.

2. This Master Circular is categorized subject wise under various headings, viz., trading rules and shareholding in dematerialized mode, monitoring of unauthenticated news circulated by SEBI registered market intermediaries through various modes of communication and disclosure reporting under the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015.

This Master Circular shall come into force from the date of its issue. This Master Circular covers various circulars issued by the Integrated Surveillance Department (ISD) of SEBI and operational as on the date of issuance of this Master Circular. This Master Circular rescinds the circulars listed in Annexure 7

3. Notwithstanding such rescission,

(a) anything done or any action taken or purported to have been done or taken under the rescinded circulars including but not limited to any inspection, or enquiry or investigation or adjudication commenced, or show-cause notice issued under the rescinded circulars, prior to such rescission, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Master Circular;

(b) the previous operation  of  the  rescinded circulars  or  anything duly  done  or suffered thereunder,  any  right,  privilege,  obligation  or  liability  acquired,  accrued  or  incurred under  the rescinded circulars, any penalty, incurred in respect of any violation committed  against    the rescinded circulars, or any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any  such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty as aforesaid, shall remain unaffected as if the rescinded circulars have never been rescinded;

4. This Master Circular is issued in exercise of powers conferred under Section 11(1) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 to protect the interest of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and to regulate the securities market.

5. This Master Circular is available on the SEBI website at https://www.sebi.gov.in/under the category “LegalMaster Circulars”.

Yours faithfully,

A. Vijayan
Deputy General Manager
Phone: +91-22-26449631
E-mail:vijayan@sebi.gov.in

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