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Section 23H: Penalty for contravention where no separate penalty has been provided.

The Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956Central Act · Act 42 of 1956

[23H. Penalty for contravention where no separate penalty has been provided.--Whoever fails to comply with any provision of this Act, the rules or articles or bye-laws or the regulations of the recognised stock exchange or directions issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India for which no separate penalty has been provided, shall be [liable to a penalty which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to one crore rupees].

Where this provision sits

ActThe Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956
Section23H
Marginal notePenalty for contravention where no separate penalty has been provided.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it1

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • inserted, Act 1 of 2005. . Ins. by Act 1 of 2005, s. 11 (w.e.f. 12-10-2004).
  • substituted, Act 27 of 2014. . Subs. by Act 27 of 2014, s. 32, for “liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five crore rupess” (w.e.f. 8-9-2014).

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