s 355 Power of Commission to take action against futures exchange, approved clearing house, etc., for failure to comply with rules, regulations, etc.
(1) Where a person— (a) contravenes the provisions of this Act other than the provisions of Part V and Division 2 of Part VI or any securities laws; or (b) fails to comply with, observe, enforce or give effect to— (i) the rules of a futures exchange or approved clearing house; (ii) any written notice, guidelines issued or condition imposed, by the Commission; or (iii) any rules of a recognized self-regulatory organization, in circumstances where the person is under an obligation to comply with, observe, enforce or give effect to such rules, written notice, guidelines or conditions, that person has committed a breach. (2) Without limiting the generality of paragraph (1)(b), the following persons shall be deemed to be under an obligation to comply with, observe, enforce or give effect to the rules of a futures exchange, approved clearing house or recognized self-regulatory organization to the extent to which such rules purport to apply in relation to those persons: (a) an exchange holding company; (b) a futures exchange; (c) an approved clearing house; (d) an affiliate; (e) a recognized self-regulatory organization; (f) a person to whom the rules of a futures exchange, approved clearing house or recognized self-regulatory organization, as the case may be, apply; (g) the directors or officers of the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d); or (h) any other person on whom an obligation under any guideline issued by the Commission has been imposed in respect of trading, investment advise or fund management in respect of futures contracts. (3) If a person has committed a breach and the Commission is satisfied that it is appropriate in all the circumstances to take action against that person, the Commission may take any one or more of the following actions: (a) direct the exchange holding company or futures exchange, as the case may be— (i) to suspend trading on the futures market in a particular class of futures contracts; (ii) to limit transactions on the futures market to the closing out of futures contracts; (iii) to defer for a stated period the completion date for all futures contracts or for a particular class of futures contracts entered into on the futures market; (iv) to cause a particular futures contract entered into on the futures market or each futures contract included in a particular class of futures contracts so entered into, to be— (A) closed out immediately as the result of the matching up of the futures contract with a futures contract of the same kind whose price or value is equal to a price or value determined by the futures exchange; or (B) invoiced back to a stated date at a price or value determined by the futures exchange; (v) to require a futures contract entered into on the futures market or each futures contract included in a particular class of futures contracts so entered into, to be discharged by— (A) the tendering of a merchantable lot of an instrument determined by the futures exchange, that is of a quality or standard determined by the futures exchange, that is different from the quality or standard of the instrument stated in the futures contract; and (B) the tendering of a price adjusted by an amount determined by the futures exchange that is appropriate having regard to the quality or standard of the instrument referred to in subsubparagraph (A); (vi) to require any affiliates of the futures exchange to act in a particular manner in relation to trading in futures contracts on the futures market of that futures exchange or in relation to trading in a particular class of futures contracts; (b) direct the person in breach to comply with, observe, enforce or give effect to such rules, provisions, written notice, condition or guideline; (c) impose a penalty in proportion to the severity or gravity of the breach on the person in breach, but in any event not exceeding five hundred thousand ringgit; (d) reprimand the person in breach; (e) require the person in breach to take such steps as the Commission may direct to remedy the breach or to mitigate the effect of such breach, including making restitution to any other person aggrieved by such breach. (4) The Commission shall not take any action under subsection (3) without giving the person in breach an opportunity to be heard. (5) For the purpose of paragraph (3)(e), in determining whether or not restitution is to be made by an exchange holding company, futures exchange, approved clearing house, director, officer or affiliate concerned, or any other person concerned, the Commission shall have regard to— (a) the profits that have accrued to such exchange holding company, futures exchange, approved clearing house, director, officer or affiliate concerned or any other person concerned; or (b) whether any person has suffered loss or been otherwise adversely affected as a result of the breach. (6) Where the Commission takes an action under subsection (3) against any person under the rules of the futures exchange, an approved clearing house or a central depository, the Commission shall serve a written notice on the futures exchange, the approved clearing house or the central depository, as the case may be, of the grounds and the proposed action to be taken by the Commission. (7) Nothing in this section shall preclude— (a) the Commission from taking any of the actions that it is empowered to take under this Act or any securities laws against the person in breach; and (b) the exchange holding company, futures exchange or approved clearing house, as the case may be, from taking any action under its rules. (8) Where a person has failed to pay a penalty imposed by the Commission under paragraph (3)(c), the penalty imposed by the Commission may be sued for and recovered as a civil debt due to the Government of Malaysia. (9) Without prejudice to any other remedy, where a direction under paragraph (3)(e) had required the person in breach to make restitution in the form of monetary payment, and the person in breach fails to pay the restitution, the Commission may sue for and recover the restitution as a civil debt due to the persons aggrieved by the breach. (10) To the extent that any of the amount obtained under paragraph (3)(e) or subsection (9) has not been distributed due to the difficulty of ascertaining or notifying the aggrieved persons, such amount shall be paid to— (a) the fidelity fund maintained under Part IV; or (b) retained by the Commission to defray the costs of regulating the capital market, as the Commission, with the approval of the Minister, may determine.