THE GAZETTE OF INDIA — THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA ACT, 1992

THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY PART III -SECTION 4 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA NOTIFICATION Mumbai, the 11 th September, 2018 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA (ISSUE OF CAPITAL AND DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS) REGULATIONS, 2018 No. SEBI/LAD -NRO/GN/2018/31. -In exercise of the powers conferred by section 30 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992), the Board hereby makes the following regulations, namely: CHAPTER I -PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement (1) These regulations may be called the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018. They shall come into force on the sixtieth day from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. Definitions (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Act" means the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 [15 of 1992]; (b) "advertisement" includes notices, brochures, pamphlets, show cards, catalogues, hoardings, placards, posters, insertions in newspaper, pictures and films in any print media or electronic media, radio, television programme; (c) "anchor investor" means a qualified institutional buyer who makes an application for a value of at least ten crore rupees in a public issue on the main board made through the book building process in accordance with these regulations or makes an application for a value of at least two crore rupees for an issue made in accordance with Chapter IX of these regulations; (d) "application supported by blocked amount (ASBA)" means an application for subscribing to a public issue or rights issue, along with an authorisation to self-certified syndicate bank to block the application money in a bank acco