30 October 2013

Securities Markets Act (Main Board / Debt Market Listing Rules) Approval of Market Rules Notice 2013

Pursuant to section 36K(1) of the Securities Markets Act 1988, the Financial Markets Authority gives the following notice.

Contents

1 Title
2 Commencement
3 Interpretation
4 Approval of market rules


Notice

1 Title

This notice is the Securities Markets Act (Main Board/Debt Market Listing Rules) Approval of Market Rules Notice 2013.

2 Commencement

This notice comes into force on 30 October 2013.

3 Interpretation

(1) In this notice, unless the context otherwise requires, -

Act means the Securities Markets Act 1988
Debt Market or NZDX means the debt security market operated by NZX
Main Board or NZSX means the main board equity security market operated by NZX
NZX means NZX Limited

(2) Any term or expression that is defined in the Act and used, but not defined, in this notice has the same meaning as in the Act.

4 Approval of market rules

The NZX Limited Main Board/Debt Market Listing Rules dated 30 October 2013 are approved as market rules for the NZSX and NZDX markets operated by NZX.

Dated at Wellington this 30th day of October 2013

Elaine Campbell
Head of Compliance Monitoring
Financial Markets Authority


Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This notice comes into force on 30 October 2013. The notice allows for NZX Limited to replace the NZSX/NZDX Listing Rules dated 5 October 2012 with the Main Board/Debt Market Listing Rules dated 30 October 2013.