51. Bucketing

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 1995.

(1)

No person shall knowingly execute, or hold himself out as having executed, an order for the purchase or sale of a futures contract on a futures market, without having effected a bona fide purchase or sale of the futures contract in accordance with the business rules and practices of the futures market.

(2)

No person shall knowingly execute, or hold himself out as having executed, an order to make a purchase or sale in connection with leveraged foreign exchange trading, without having effected a bona fide purchase or sale in accordance with the order.

Terms defined in s 2

business rules
Defined · s 2
“business rules”, in relation to a body corporate that maintains or proposes to maintain a futures market, means the rules, regulations and by-laws, by whatever name called, governing the activities and conduct of —(a)the body corporate and its members;(b)its clearing house; and(c)other persons in relation to the futures market,whether those rules, regulations or by-laws are made by the body corporate or are contained in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the body corporate or altered or supplemented by the Authority pursuant to section 6(4);
Open s 2
futures contract
Defined · s 2
“futures contract” means a contract the effect of which is that —(a)one party agrees to deliver a specified commodity, or a specified quantity of a specified commodity, to another party at a specified future time and at a specified price payable at that time pursuant to terms and conditions set forth in the business rules or practices of a Futures Exchange or a futures market; or(b)the parties will discharge their obligations under the contract by settling the difference between the value of a specified quantity of a specified commodity at the time of the making of the contract and at a specified future time, such difference being determined in accordance with the business rules or practices of the Exchange or futures market at which the contract is made,and includes a futures option transaction;
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futures market
Defined · s 2
“futures market” means —(a)a market, a Futures Exchange or other place, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, at which trading in futures contracts regularly takes place; or(b)an electronic system, whether operating in Singapore or elsewhere, through which trading in futures contracts is carried out; but excludes an electronic facility which merely provides price or other information on futures contracts (whether the facility is part of or carried on in conjunction with the provision of any other information not related to futures contracts) and which does not permit users of the facility to channel orders for, execute transactions in, or make a market in, futures contracts;
Open s 2
leveraged foreign exchange trading
Defined · s 2
“leveraged foreign exchange trading” has the meaning given to it in section 2A;
Open s 2

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Read on from s 52