Stock Exchange Act, 1995

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PART IV

Regulation And Supervision of Stock Exchanges and Member Firms

General functions of Bank.

28.—(1) Subject to such guidelines in this regard, as may be issued from time to time by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Enterprise and Employment in the interests of the proper and orderly regulation and supervision of stock exchanges and their member firms and the protection of investors, and notified to the Bank in writing and published in the Iris Oifigiúil, the Bank shall administer the system of regulation and supervision of approved stock exchanges and their member firms in accordance with the provisions of this Act in order to promote—

(a) the maintenance of the proper and orderly regulation and supervision of approved stock exchanges and their member firms, and the orderly and proper regulation of financial markets, and

(b) the protection of investors.

(2) Where the Bank is of the opinion that it is necessary in the interests of assessing the capacity of a stock exchange or a member firm to engage in an activity for which it has sought approval or authorisation or for which it stands approved or authorised under section 10 or 21 of this Act, it may commission an independent assessment of the capacity of the proposed stock exchange or of the approved stock exchange or of the proposed member firm or of the authorised member firm.

(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, the Minister may, after consulting with the Bank, prescribe the fee to be paid to the Bank by an approved stock exchange or member firm supervised by it under this Act and the Minister may prescribe different fees for different classes of approved stock exchanges or different classes of member firms.

(4) Regulations under this section may provide for such incidental or related matters as are, in the opinion of the Minister, necessary to give effect to such fees and where the Minister proposes to prescribe a fee under subsection (3) of this section he shall—

(a) notify the approved stock exchanges or authorised member firms of the class to which the proposed fee relates, of that proposed fee; and

(b) consider any representations made to him within a reasonable period, being not less than two months after the date the notification was sent by him to each approved stock exchange or authorised member firm concerned, as he shall specify in the notification.

(5) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act the Bank shall co-operate with the competent authorities in other Member States so that the responsibilities of each competent authority may be more effectively discharged.

(6) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of this section or to the Bank's powers under sections 15 , 27 and 56 of this Act, the Bank may carry out, at the request of another competent authority, verification that any member firm authorised by that competent authority is complying with the relevant regulatory requirements imposed by that competent authority or by the home Member State of such member firm.