(6)The legally binding requirements of India for CCPs authorised therein which clear corporate securities and financial derivatives and which are under the supervision and oversight of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) (the SEBI regime), consist of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act 1956 (the SCRA) and the Securities Contract (Regulation) (Stock Exchange and Clearing Corporations) Regulations 2012 (the Regulations) which were adopted in June 2012 by SEBI in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the SCRA and the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act (the SEBI Act). SEBI issued a Circular on 4 September 2013 (the Circular) whereby it adopted the Principles for Financial Markets Infrastructures (‘PFMIs’) issued in April 2012 by the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems 2 and the International Organization of Securities Commissions and required financial market infrastructures including clearing corporations to adhere to them.
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- 2 As of 1 September 2014 the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems has changed its name to Committee on Payment and Market Infrastructures.. ↩