Ready Delivery Contract - SEBI Ready Reckoner - SEBI

As per section 2(ea) of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 , unless the context otherwise requires,- Ready Delivery Contract means- a contract which provides for the delivery of goods and the payment of a price therefor, either immediately, or within such period not exceeding eleven days after the date of the contract and subject to such conditions as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in respect of any goods, the period under such contract not being capable of extension by the mutual consent of the parties thereto or otherwise: Provided that where any such contract is performed either wholly or in part: (I) by realisation of any sum of money being the difference between the contract rate and the settlement rate or clearing rate or the rate of any offsetting contract; or (II) by any other means whatsoever, and as a result of which the actual tendering of the goods covered by the contract or payment of the full price therefor is dispensed with, then such contract shall not be deemed to be a ready delivery contract;