sebi:1300352625006

SEBI · SEBI · 1993-11-18 · G. N. Bajpai, Chairman, SEBI

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Facts / Headnote

Broker held guilty; certificate of registration No. INB230877337 suspended for a period of four months effective on expiry of three weeks from date of order

Provisions invoked

• s. 11

Regulations

• Reg. 7
• Reg. 13
• Reg. 12
• Reg. 13(1)(b)

Parties

• M/s. Intec Share and Stock Brokers Ltd.

Holding

M/s. Intec Share and Stock Brokers Ltd. was held guilty of multiple violations of Code of Conduct clauses A(5) and B(1) read with SEBI circulars, and its certificate of registration No. INB230877337 as member of National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. was suspended for four months.

Full text

Therefore, to the extent of above cases, the member has not made the payment to the clients within 2 days which is in violation of SEBI Circular SMD/SED/CIR/93/23321 dated 18.11.93. As can be seen from the above table in some of the cases the payments have not been made. 2) Contract notes not bearing preprinted serial numbers and client acknowledgment in duplicate copy of contract note not maintained. With reference to the above irregularity, it was replied that the contract notes serial number was on a daily basis due to software limitations which is now rectified. Since the clients do not personally collect the contract note, copies of the courier slips are maintained in lieu of acknowledgement copy. As per rules contract notes serial number should be on a continuous basis annually. Issuance of contract notes without continuous serial number is not in conformity with SEBI Circular No. SMD/MDP/CIR/043/96 dated 05.08.96. Similarly obtention of the signature of client along with the date on the duplicate copy of the contract note is an essential requirement without which it would not be possible to ascertain whether the contract notes were issued within 24 hours from the date of transaction. The practice of the member of not maintaining the acknowledgement copy of the contract note with clients’ signature and date thereon is not in conformity with SEBI circular No. SMD/B/104/22775 dated 29.10.93. 3) Non maintenance of Client registration and Agreement forms The show cause noti

sellers in an open manner. It is therefore, concluded that the member had conducted a huge number of cross deals as listed out in Annexure M and N of the show cause notice. These deals are not in conformity with the aforesaid SEBI circular SMDRP/POLICY/CIR-32/99 dated September 14, 1999. 5) Non collection of Margins With regards to the allegation that the margins have not been collected in contravention of the SEBI circular dated 04.12.98, it was submitted that the margins were collected from the clients but were credited in the clients’ account instead of the margin’s account. It was further submitted that now the margins are credited to the margins account and the auditor’s certificate is submitted to the exchange on quarterly basis. The member was having Rs. 6070430 with NSE as on 02.04.2001 but the margin account as on that date showed nil balance. The explanation of the member that margins were collected in the client’s account and not in the margins account is not strictly in compliance with SEBI circular dated 04.12.98. Having regard to the submission that the margins were collected from the clients and credited to the clients’ account though not to a separate margin’s account together with the filing of auditor’s certificate on quarterly basis to the exchange, the deviation may be treated as a procedural irregularity. 6) Delay in making delivery of securities to the clients As regards the delay in delivery of securities to the client, the show cause notice dated 25.10

It would be difficult to relate these cash debits to any particular cash receipts which could be for any reason. Further, the debits and credits are not matching. The explanation of the member in respect of cash withdrawals is not satisfactory even after factoring for the ICDs as discussed earlier. It is therefore, established that in respect of the following transactions,, the debits of the clients’ account by the member is not justified and against the Principle of segregation of clients’ funds and own funds.

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