TMI BlogConsolidation of holdings.X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... acquisition shareholding or voting rights not exceeding fifty five per cent.,] 5 [in any financial year ending on 31st March] unless such acquirer makes a public announcement to acquire shares in accordance with the regulations. 6 [(2) No acquirer, who together with persons acting in concert with him holds, fifty-five per cent (55%) or more but less than seventy-five per cent (75%) of the shares or voting rights in a target company, shall acquire either by himself or through 7 [or with] persons acting in concert with him any additional shares 8 [entitling him to exercise voting rights] or voting rights therein, unless he makes a public announcement to acquire shares in accordance with these Regulations: Provided that in a case where the tar ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... an seventy-five per cent (75%) of the shares or voting rights in a target company, is desirous of consolidating his holding while ensuring that the public shareholding in the target company does not fall below the minimum level permitted by the Listing Agreement, he may do so 13 [***] by making a public announcement in accordance with these regulations : Provided that in a case where the target company had obtained listing of its shares by making an offer of at least ten per cent (10%) of issue size to the public in terms of clause (b) of sub-rule (2) of rule 19 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957, or in terms of any relaxation granted from strict enforcement of the said rule, this sub-regulation shall apply as if for the w ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... of Shares and Takeovers) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2002, w.e.f. 1-10-2002. Earlier it was substituted for 5% of the voting rights by the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2001, w.e.f. 24-10-2001. 4. Inserted by the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2009, w.e.f. 6-11-2009. 5. Substituted for the words in any period of 12 months by the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2002, w.e.f. 9-9-2002. 6. Substituted by the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) (Amendment) Regulations, 2006, w.e.f. 26-5-2006. Prior to its substitution, sub-regulation (2), as amended by the SE ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... and SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) (Amendment) Regulations, 1998, w.e.f. 28-10-1998 read as under: Provided that no acquirer shall acquire shares or voting rights, through market purchases and preferential allotment pursuant to a resolution passed under section 81 of the Companies Act, 1956 or any other applicable law, which (taken together with shares or voting rights, if any, held by him or by persons acting in concert with him), entitle such acquirer to exercise more than fifty five per cent of the voting rights in the company: Provided further that if the acquirer has acquired shares or voting rights through such market purchases or preferential allotment beyond fifty five per cent of the voting rights in the com ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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