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The Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act

10Power of Securities and Exchange Board of India to make or amend bye-laws of recognised stock exchanges

10. Power of 1[Securities and Exchange Board of India] to make or amend byelaws of recognised stock exchanges.-- (1) The 1[Securities and Exchange Board of India] may, either on a request in writing received by it in this behalf from the governing body of a recognised stock exchange or on its own motion, if it is satisfied after consultation with the governing body of the stock exchange that it is necessary or expedient so to do and after recording its reasons for so doing, make bye-laws for all or any of the matters specified in section 9 or amend any bye-laws made by such stock exchange under that section.

(2) Where in pursuance of this section any bye-laws have been made or amended, the due-laws so made or amended shall be published in the Gazette of India and also in the Official Gazette of the State in which the principal office of the recognised stock exchange is situate, and on the publication thereof in the Gazette of India, the bye-laws so made or amended shall have effect as if they had been made or amended by the recognised stock exchange concerned.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, where the governing body of a recognised stock exchange objects to any bye-laws made or amended under this section by the 1[Securities and Exchange Board of India] on its own motion, it may, within 2[two months] of the publication thereof in the Gazette of India under sub-section (2) , apply to the 3[Securities and Exchange Board of India] for revision thereof, and the 3[Securities and Exchange Board of India] may, after giving an opportunity to the governing body of the stock exchange to be heard in the matter, revise the bye-laws so made or amended, and where any bye-laws so made or amended are revised as a result of any action taken under this sub-section, the bye-laws so revised shall be published and shall become effective as provided in sub-section (2).

(4) The making or the amendment or revision of any bye-laws under this section shall in all cases be subject to the condition of previous publication:

Provided that if the 3[Securities and Exchange Board of India] is satisfied in any case that in the interest of the trade or in the public interest any bye-laws should be made, amended or revised immediately, it may, by order in writing specifying the reasons therefor, dispense with the condition of previous publication.

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1. Subs. by Act 15 of 1992, s. 33 and the Schedule, for "Central Government" (w.e.f. 30-1-1992).

2. Subs. by Act 9 of 1995, s. 20, for "six months" (w,e,f, 25-1-1995).

3. Subs. by Act 15 of 1992, s. 33 and the Schedule, for "Central Government" (w.e.f. 30-1-1992).

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