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Financial Markets Act, 2012 (Act No. 19 of 2012)

Chapter III : Preliminary Provisions

General provisions in relation to listed securities

24. Buying and selling listed securities

 

A person may only carry on the business of buying or selling listed securities if that person—

(a) is an authorised user and acts in compliance with the relevant exchange rules;
(b) effects such buying or selling through an authorised user in compliance with the relevant exchange rules;
(c) is not an authorised user, but is a financial institution transacting as principal with another financial institution also transacting as principal, subject to section 25; or
(d) is a person who, subject to any condition that the Authority may prescribe, buys or sells listed securities in order to—
(i) give effect to a reconstruction of a company or group of companies by the issue or reallocation of shares, or a takeover by one company of another or an amalgamation of two or more companies; or
(ii) effect a change in the control over management or the business of a company.