Issuance of Offshore Derivative Instruments by Registered Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) - SEBI - IMD/CUST/13/2004

IMD DEPARTMENT EMAIL: [email protected] WEB-SITE:www.sebi.gov.in FAX NO: 91 22 22829520 Circular No. IMD/CUST/13/2004 February 19 , 2004 To All Foreign Institutional Investors and Custodians of Securities Dear Sir / Madam, Sub: Issuance of Offshore Derivative Instruments by Registered Foreign Institutional Investors (FII). Please refer to our Circular No. IMD/CUST/02/2004 dated January 26, 2004 regarding the captioned subject. Further to the aforesaid circular and insertion of Regulation 15A in the SEBI(FII) Regulations, 1995( Regulations ) , it is hereby clarified that the following entities would be deemed to be regulated entities for the purpose of Regulation 15A of the Regulations: 1. Any entity incorporated in a jurisdiction that requires filing of constitutional and/or other documents with a registrar of companies or comparable regulatory agency or body under the applicable companies legislation in that jurisdiction; 2. Any entity that is regulated, authorised or supervised by a central bank, such as the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Monetary Authority of Singapore or any other similar body provided that the entity must not only be authorised but also be regulated by the aforesaid regulatory bodies; 3. Any entity that is regulated, authorised or supervised by a securities or futures commission, such as the Financial Services Authority (UK), the Securities and Exchange Commission (USA), the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (USA), the Securities and Futures Commission (Hong Kong or Taiwan), Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Australia) or other securities or futures authority or commission in any country , state or territory ; 4. Any entity that is a member of securities or futures exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange (USA), London Stock Exchange (UK), Tokyo Stock Exchange (Japan), NASD (USA) or other similar self-regulatory securities or futures authority or commission within any country, state or territory provided that the aforesaid mentioned organizations which are in the nature of self regulatory organizations are ultimately accountable to the respective securities / financial market regulators. 5. Any individual or entity (such as fund, trust, collective investment scheme, investment company or limited partnership) whose investment advisory function is managed by an entity satisfying the criteria of (a), (b) ,(c) or (d) above. A copy of the circular is available at the web page Foreign Institutional Investors on our website www.sebi.gov.in . The custodians are requested to bring the contents of this circular to the notice of their FII clients . Yours faithfully, D. Chanda Chief General Manager