Para 7 - Period of holding requirements - Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme, 2012

1 [Period of holding requirements 7. (1) The period of holding of eligible securities shall be three years to be counted in the manner detailed hereunder. (2) All eligible securities are required to be held for a period called the fixed lock-in period which shall commence from the date of purchase of such securities in the relevant financial year and end one year from the date of purchase of the last set of eligible securities (in the same financial year) on which deduction is claimed under the Scheme. (3) The new retail investor shall not be permitted to sell, pledge or hypothecate any eligible security during the fixed lock-in period. (4) The period of two years beginning immediately after the end of the fixed lock-in period shall be called the flexible lock-in period. (5) The new retail investor shall be permitted to trade the eligible securities after the completion of the fixed lock-in period subject to the following conditions:- (a) the new retail investor shall ensure that the demat account under the Scheme is compliant for a cumulative period of a minimum of two hundred and seventy days during each of the two years of the flexible lock-in period as laid down hereunder:- (A) the demat account shall be considered compliant for the number of days where value of the investment portfolio of eligible securities, within the flexible lock-in period, is equal to or higher than the amount claimed as investment for the purposes of deduction under section 80CCG of the Act; (B) in case the value of investment portfolio in the demat account falls due to fall in the market rate of eligible securities in the flexible lock-in period, then notwithstanding sub-clause(A),- (i) the demat account shall be considered compliant from the first day of the flexible lock-in period to the day any such eligible securities are sold during this period; (ii) where the assessee sells the eligible securities mentioned in sub-clause (B) from his demat account, he shall have to purchase eligible securities and the said demat account shall be compliant from the day on which the value of the investment portfolio in the account Incomes - (I) at least equivalent to the investment claimed as eligible for deduction under section 80CCG of the Act; or (II) the value of the investment portfolio under the Scheme before such sale, whichever is less. (6) The new retail investor's demat account created under the Scheme shall, on the expiry of the period of holding of the investment, be converted automatically into an ordinary demat account. (7) For the purpose of valuation of investment during the flexible lock-in period, the closing price as on the previous day of the date of trading, shall be considered. (8) While making the initial investments upto fifty thousand rupees, the total cost of acquisition of eligible securities shall not include brokerage charges, Securities Transaction Tax, stamp duty, service tax and all taxes, which are appearing in the contract note. (9) Where the investment of the new retail investor undergoes a change as a result of involuntary corporate actions like demerger of companies, amalgamation, etc. resulting in debit or credit of securities covered under the Scheme, the deduction claimed by such investor shall not be affected. (10) In case of voluntary corporate actions like buy-back, etc. resulting only in debit of securities, where new retail investor has the option to exercise his choice, the same shall be considered as a sale transaction for the purpose of the Scheme. (11) The Securities and Exchange Board of India established under section 3 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992) shall notify the corporate actions, referred to in sub-paragraph (9), allowed under the Scheme in this regard. ] ----------------------- Notes:- 1. Inserted vide Notification No. 51/2012, dated 23/11/2012