Regulation 53 - Contributions to print, social and digital / electronic media or any other media in public domain - Securities And Exchange Board Of India (Employees' Service) Regulations, 2001

Contributions to 1 [print, social and digital / electronic media or any other media in public domain] 53. (1) No employee may contribute to 2 [ print, social and digital / electronic media or any other media available in the public domain ] without the prior sanction of the Competent Authority or without such sanction make public or publish any document, paper or information which may come in his possession in his official capacity. (2) No employee shall except with the previous sanction of the (2) competent authority publish or cause to be published any book or any similar printed matter of which he is the author or not or deliver talk or lecture in any public meeting or otherwise. Provided that no such sanction is required, if such broadcast or contribution or publication is of a purely literary, artistic, scientific, professional, cultural, educational, religious or social character. 3 [ Provided further that wherever such sanction is granted by the Competent Authority for employee s contribution to any print, social and digital / electronic media or any other media available in the public domain, he shall provide a disclaimer to the effect that the views expressed therein are his own and are not endorsed by the Board. ] ************** NOTES:- 1. Substituted vide Notification No. SEBI/LAD-NRO/GN/2022/111 dated 30-12-2022 before it was read as, the press 2. Substituted vide Notification No. SEBI/LAD-NRO/GN/2022/111 dated 30-12-2022 before it was read as, the press 3. Inserted vide Notification No. SEBI/LAD-NRO/GN/2022/111 dated 30-12-2022