Clear out the false trading claims
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Question
- Three of these claims about a spot delivery contract are false.
- Choices
- Item
- Delivery may land on the very next day.
- Correct
- Yes
- Explanation
- The window is the same day or the next day only.
- Item
- Seven full days are allowed for delivery.
- Explanation
- Time taken by post for dispatch is left out.
- Item
- Postal time counts inside the window.
- Explanation
- Payment moves in the same short window as delivery.
- Item
- Payment may follow a fortnight later.
- Question
- Three of these claims about recognising a stock exchange are false.
- Choices
- Item
- Withdrawal is dealt with by Section 5.
- Correct
- Yes
- Explanation
- Section 3 covers only the application stage.
- Item
- Section 3 grants the recognition.
- Explanation
- Sections 4 and 5 powers sit with SEBI too.
- Item
- Only the Central Government may act.
- Explanation
- Recognition here is not a Reserve Bank power.
- Item
- The Reserve Bank grants recognition.
- Instructions
- Tap away each wrong claim about stock exchange rules until only the true one survives.
Explanation
_Source: ICSI CS Executive Paper 6 (Securities Laws and Capital Markets) — Lesson 1: Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956, pp. 4-21._