Securities and Futures (Licensing and Conduct of Business) Regulations

Securities and Futures Act

(CHAPTER 289, Sections 2(1), 84, 85, 87, 90, 91, 93 to 97, 99, 100, 102, 104, 118, 120, 123, 128, 337, 339(3) and 341)

Rg 10

G.N. No. S 457/2002

REVISED EDITION 2004

(29th February 2004)

[1st October 2002;

1st April 2003: — regulation 54 ]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Securities and Futures (Licensing and Conduct of Business) Regulations.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“advertisement”, in relation to a holder of a capital markets services licence, means a dissemination or conveyance of information, or an invitation or solicitation, in respect of any regulated activity that the holder is licensed to carry on business in, by any means or in any form, including by means of —

(a)	publication in a newspaper, magazine, journal or other periodical;
(b)	display of posters or notices;
(c)	circulars, handbills, brochures, pamphlets, books or other documents;
(d)	letters addressed to individuals or bodies;
(e)	photographs or cinematograph films; or
(f)	sound broadcasting, television, the Internet or other media; [S 373/2005 wef 01/07/2005]

“bond” includes —

(a)	any note, bond or Treasury Bill;
(b)	an option in respect of any note, bond or Treasury Bill; and
(c)	such other securities or class of securities as the Authority may from time to time, by a guideline issued by the Authority, determine;

“electronic record” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Electronic Transactions Act (Cap. 88);

“Government securities” means securities issued or proposed to be issued by the Government, and includes —

(a)	any debenture, stock or bond issued or proposed to be issued by the Government;
(b)	any right or option in respect of any debenture, stock or bond referred to in paragraph (a);
(c)	book-entry Government securities as defined in section 2 of the Development Loan (1987) Act (Cap. 81A) or section 2 of the Government Securities Act (Cap. 121A); and
(d)	book-entry Treasury Bills as defined in section 2 of the Local Treasury Bills Act (Cap. 167);

“guideline issued by the Authority” means a guideline issued by the Authority under section 321 of the Act;

“Internet-based trading platform” means an order management system for the purpose of dealing in securities, trading in futures contracts or carrying out leveraged foreign exchange trading, offered by a holder of a capital markets services licence or a person who is exempt from holding a capital markets services licence pursuant to section 99(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the Act, which is accessible through the Internet, and is not limited to accredited investors, expert investors and institutional investors;

[S 170/2013 wef 28/03/2014]

“position” means a futures contract or a leveraged foreign exchange transaction which is still outstanding, and which has not been liquidated —

(a)	against any transaction for purposes of set-off;
(b)	by delivery of the commodity underlying the futures contract or leveraged foreign exchange transaction;
(c)	by settlement of the futures contract or leveraged foreign exchange transaction in accordance with the rules of a futures exchange or a clearing house or the practices of a futures market, a foreign exchange market or a recognised trading system provider, as the case may be;
(d)	in the case of a futures contract, by substituting the futures contract with cash commodity; or
(e)	in the case of a leveraged foreign exchange transaction, by substituting the leveraged foreign exchange transaction for a futures contract;

“quarter”, in relation to a calendar year, means a period of 3 months ending on the last day of March, June, September or December in that calendar year;

“Registered Fund Management Company” means a corporation which is exempted from holding a capital markets services licence under paragraph 5(1)(i) of the Second Schedule;

[S 385/2012 wef 07/08/2012]

“Rules and Market Practices” means the Rules and Market Practices (including any amendment and modification thereto) of the Singapore Government Securities Market as promulgated from time to time by the Singapore Government Securities Market Committee of the Singapore Government Securities Market.

[G. N. Nos. S 457/2002; S 543/2003]

Search within Legislation