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Sep 01, 2018

Amendments to Provisions relating to Maintenance of Minimum Public Shareholding

The Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs) has, by way of a notification dated July 24, 2018, amended Rule 19A of the Securities Contracts (Regulations) Rules, 1957. The amendment provides that if pursuant to the implementation of a resolution plan under Section 31 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, (i) the public shareholding of a listed company falls below 25%, then the company is required to increase its public shareholding to at least 25%, within a period of three years; and (ii) if the public shareholding of a listed company falls below 10%, the company is required to increase its public shareholding to at least 10% within a period of 18 months from the date of such decrease.

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