Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act : Act not to be apply in certain cases. Indian Bare Acts :

Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act,1956

Act No : 42

Section : Act not to be apply in certain cases.

1[28.Act not to be apply in certain cases. (1) The provisions of this Act shall not apply to- (a) the Government, the Reserve Bank of India, any local authority or any corporation set up by a special law or any person who has effected any transaction with or through the agency of any such authority as is referred to in this clause; (b) any convertible bond or share warrant or any option or right in relation thereto, in so far as it entitles the person in whose favour any of the foregoing has been issued to obtain at his option from the company or other body corporate issuing the same or from any of its shareholders or duly appointed agents shares of the company or other body corporate, whether by conversion of the bond or warrant or otherwise, on the basis of the price agreed upon when the same was issued. (2) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in sub-section if the Central Government is satisfied_ that in the interests of trade and commerce or the economic development of the country it is necessary or expedient so to do, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify any class of contracts as contracts to which this Act or any provision contained therein shall not apply, and also the conditions, limitations or restrictions, if any, Subject to which it shall not so apply.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Subs. by Act 49 of 1959, s. 3, for s. 28. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 144