{"act":{"id":"finance-act-2018","short_title":"The Finance Act, 2018","long_title":"An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2018-2019.","act_number":"13","act_year":2018,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":"Ministry of Finance","department":"Department of Revenue","jurisdiction":"CENTRAL","unit":"section","section_count":227,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"published","scan_url":null,"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2018/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"194","heading":"Insertion of new section 19FA","text":"Insertion of new section 19FA 194. After section 19F of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely:— \"19FA. Penalty for failure to conduct business in a fair manner—Where a depository fails to conduct its business with its participants or any issuer or its agent or any person associated with the securities markets in a fair manner in accordance with the rules, regulations made by the Board or directions issued by the Board under this Act, it shall be liable to penalty which shall not be less than five crore rupees but which may extend to twenty-five crore rupees or three times the amount of gains made out of such failure, whichever is higher.\".","html":"<p><b>Insertion of new section 19FA</b></p><p><b>194. </b>After section 19F of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—</p><p>\"19FA. <i>Penalty for failure to conduct business in a fair manner</i>—Where a depository fails to conduct its business with its participants or any issuer or its agent or any person associated with the securities markets in a fair manner in accordance with the rules, regulations made by the Board or directions issued by the Board under this Act, it shall be liable to penalty which shall not be less than five crore rupees but which may extend to twenty-five crore rupees or three times the amount of gains made out of such failure, whichever is higher.\".</p>","words":116,"text_source":"published"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2018/section/194/","note":null,"source_note":"Harvested from the Income Tax Department's own portal at incometaxindia.gov.in, which publishes the Finance Acts section by section. India Code carries none of them: its Central community holds the Acts that stand as general law, and a Finance Act is an amending and rate-fixing instrument.","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}