SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA (DISCLOSURE AND INVESTOR PROTECTION) GUIDELINES, 2000 — THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA ACT, 1992

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA (DISCLOSURE AND INVESTOR PROTECTION) GUIDELINES, 2000 CONTENTS CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1 (1.1) Short title, commencement, etc. (a) These Guidelines have been issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India under Section 11 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992. (b) These Guidelines may be called the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Disclosure and Investor Protection) Guidelines, 2000. (c) These Guidelines shall come into force from the date specified by the Board. 1.2 Definitions 1.2.1 In these Guidelines, unless the context otherwise requires; 2 (ia) "Abridged Letter of Offer" in relation to a rights issue means the abridged form of a letter of offer which satisfies the minimum requirements laid down in Section IV of Chapter VI of the Guidelines); 3 (ib)) "Abridged Prospectus" means the memorandum as prescribed in Form 2A under Sub-section (3) of Section 56 of the Companies Act, 1956; ii) "Act" means the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992); iii) "Advertisement" includes notices, brochures, pamphlets, circulars, show cards, catalogues, hoardings, placards, posters, insertions in newspaper, pictures, films, cover pages of offer documents or any other print medium, radio, television programmes through any electronic medium; 4 ((iii-a) "Application Supported by Blocked Amount (ASBA)" means an application for subscribing to an issue containing an authorisation to block the application money in a bank account.) 1 Renumbered clause 1 as "clause 1.1", vide SEBI Circular No. SEBI/CFD/DIL/DIP/14/2005/25/1 dated January 25, 2005. 2 Inserted vide SEBI Circular No. SEBI/CFD/DIL/DIP/19/2006/31/3 dated March 31, 2006. 3 Renumbered sub-clause (i) as "clause (ib)", vide SEBI Circular No. SEBI/C