Section 7 of Enforcement of Security Interest and Recovery of Debts Laws and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Act 2016
Section 7 of Enforcement of Security Interest and Recovery of Debts Laws and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Act 2016 shall come into force w.e.f 4th day of November, 2016 vide Notification No S.O. 3395(E)
Section 7 of Enforcement of Security Interest and Recovery of Debts Laws and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Act 2016 makes amendment in Section 7 of Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002,
Section 7 read as follows :-
In the principal Act, in section 7, in sub-section (1), for the brackets and words “(other than by offer to public)”, the words “or such other category of investors including non-institutional investors as may be specified by the Reserve Bank in consultation with the Board, from time to time,” shall be substituted.
Thus Section 7 of Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 is as follow
Issue of security by raising of receipts or funds by 49 [asset reconstruction company].
7. (1) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (42 of 1956) and the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992), any 49[asset reconstruction company], may, after acquisition of any financial asset under sub-section (1) of section 5, offer security receipts to 50[qualified buyers]51[or such other category of investors including non-institutional investors as may be specified by the Reserve Bank in consultation with the Board, from time to time,] for subscription in accordance with the provisions of those Acts.
(2) A 49[asset reconstruction company] may raise funds from the 50[qualified buyers] by formulating schemes for acquiring financial assets and shall keep and maintain separate and distinct accounts in respect of each such scheme for every financial asset acquired out of investments made by a 52[qualified buyer] and ensure that realisations of such financial asset is held and applied towards redemption of investments and payment of returns assured on such investments under the relevant scheme.
53[(2A)(a) The scheme for the purpose of offering security receipts under sub-section (1) or raising funds under sub-section (2), may be in the nature of a trust to be managed by the 49[asset reconstruction company], and the 49[asset reconstruction company] shall hold the assets so acquired or the funds so raised for acquiring the assets, in trust for the benefit of the 50[qualified buyers]holding the security receipts or from whom the funds are raised.
(b) The provisions of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 (2 of 1882) shall, except in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, apply with respect to the trust referred to in clause (a) above.]
(3) In the event of non-realisation under sub-section (2) of financial assets, the 50[qualified buyers]of a 49[asset reconstruction company], holding security receipts of not less than seventy-five per cent of the total value of the security receipts issued 53[under a scheme] by such company, shall be entitled to call a meeting of all the 50[qualified buyers] and every resolution passed in such meeting shall be binding on the company.
(4) The 54[qualified buyers] shall, at a meeting called under sub-section (3), follow the same procedure, as nearly as possible as is followed at meetings of the board of directors of the 55[asset reconstruction company], as the case may be.