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Section 8

Duty of a central depository to ensure orderly dealings in deposited securities

of Securities Industry (Central Depositories) Act 1991

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Section 8
(1)

A central depository shall take all steps and do all things necessary to ensure orderly dealings in securities deposited or lodged with it.

(2)

A central depository may, in performing its function under subsection (1), give to an issuer of any deposited security directions—

(a)

to do a particular act or thing; or

(b)

to refrain from doing a particular act or thing.

(3)

An issuer who fails to comply with any direction given by a central depository under subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.