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Depository Receipts Scheme
RBI/2014-15/421 January 22, 2015 To All Category – I Authorised Dealer Banks Madam / Sir, Depository Receipts Scheme Attention of Authorised Dealer Category – I (AD Category-I) banks is invited to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000 (the Principal Regulations) notified by the Reserve Bank vide Notification No. FEMA. 20/2000-RB dated 3rd May 2000, as amended from time to time. 2. A new scheme called ‘Depository Receipts Scheme, 2014’ (DR Scheme, 2014) for investments under ADR/GDR have been notified by the Central Government effective from December 15, 2014 which provides for repeal of extant guidelines for Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds and Ordinary Shares (Through Depositary Receipt Mechanism) Scheme, 1993 except to the extent relating to foreign currency convertible bonds. 3. The salient features of the new scheme are:
4. AD Category - I banks may bring the contents of the circular to the notice of their customers/constituents concerned. 5. Reserve Bank has since amended the Principal Regulations through the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) (Seventeenth Amendment) Regulations, 2014 notified vide Notification No. FEMA.330/2014-RB dated December 15, 2014, c.f. G.S.R. No. 914(E) dated December 24, 2014. 6. The directions contained in this circular have been issued under sections 10(4) and 11(1) of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999) and are without prejudice to permissions / approvals, if any, required under any other law. Yours faithfully (B.P. Kanungo) |