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TMI BlogComprehensive guidelines for Investor Protection Fund, Investor Service Fund and its related matters at National Commodity Derivatives ExchangesX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... to the National Commodity Derivatives Exchanges (herein after referred to as Exchanges). 2. With the objective to align with the practices in securities markets, based on the internal deliberations, discussions and feedback as received from the National Commodity Derivatives Exchanges, it has been decided to modify certain clauses in the aforesaid circular as under : Constitution and management of the IPF a) Clause 3.2. shall be substituted the following - 3.2. The IPF Trust of the exchange shall have maximum 5 trustees. The IPF Trust shall consist of three public interest directors, one representative from investor associations recognized by SEBI and the compliance officer of the exchange. The maximum tenure of a trustee (excluding ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... of the specified period may be dealt with as a civil dispute. e) Clause 6.3. shall be deleted f) Clause 6.4. shall be substituted the following- 6.4. The investor claim arising out of a default of a broker/member of the exchange shall be eligible for compensation from IPF. Determination of legitimate claims g) Clause 7.1. and 7.2. shall be substituted as following- 7.1. In case of claims against a defaulter member, the claims of the claimant shall be placed before the defaulters' committee for sanction and ratification. The Defaulters' Committee's advice with respect to legitimate claims shall be sent to IPF Trust for disbursement of the amount. 7.2. In case the claim amount is more than the maximum limit for compensation unde ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... that the amount realized from the assets of the defaulter member is returned to the defaulter member after satisfying the claims of the exchanges and SEBI in accordance with the bye-laws of the exchange. Provided that in case of a member broker having membership on multiple exchanges, amount realized from the assets of the defaulter member shall be returned to the said member only after satisfying eligible claims of the concerned exchange, SEBI, and other exchanges as the case may be. Provided further that in cases where any litigations are pending against the defaulter member, the residual amount, if any, may be retained by the exchange until such litigations are concluded." 3. The IPF Trust shall disburse the compensation to the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... IPF will rest with the IPF Trust of the exchange. Investor Service Fund (ISF) 7. Exchanges are mandated to set up Investor Service Fund (ISF) for providing following basis minimum facilities at various Investor Service Centers (ISC). a. The ISC shall provide 4 financial newspapers with at least one in the Regional language. b. The ISC shall install computer software (marketed by some vendors) which provide information about various commodities (agri and non agri) including research reports, general, financial & other important commodity related information. The information will be made available through computers with one master terminal and some dummy terminals through which investors could access this information. Other facilities l ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... rket. Contribution to ISF a. At initial stage, the exchange shall contribute a minimum of Rs Ten Lakhs towards setting up of Investor Service Fund (ISF). Subsequently, onwards, the Exchanges shall transfer the 1% percent of the turnover fees charged by the exchange from its members on monthly basis towards ISF within 7 days of the end of the month, subject to minimum of Rs Ten Lakh in a financial year. b. The Exchange shall also plough back the entire income earned on the corpus of ISF to the ISF within one month from the end of September and March of each year. 8. The exchange shall be permitted to utilize the corpus of ISF for conducting various investor education and awareness programs, capacity building programs and maintenance o ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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