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Timestamp: 2020-01-29 05:21:38
Document Index: 192892118

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 2', 'art 3', 'art 4', 'art 5', 'art 6', 'art 7', 'art 8', 'art 6']

Part 2: Offer of Securities
Part 3: Authorised Market Institutions
Part 4: Obligations of Reporting Entities
Part 5: Takeovers
Part 6: Prevention of Market Abuse
Chapter 1 — Market Abuse
54. Fraud and market manipulation
55. False or misleading statements
56. Use of fictitious devices and other forms of deception
57. False or Misleading conduct and distortion
58. Insider dealing
59. Providing inside information
60. Inducing persons to deal
61. Misuse of information
62. Application of provisions
63. Definitions for this Part
Chapter 2 — Defences
Part 7: Proceedings
Part 8: The Financial Markets Tribunal
Schedule — Interpretation
Location: Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) > Laws > Markets Law > Part 6: Prevention of Market Abuse > Chapter 1 — Market Abuse > 57. False or Misleading conduct and distortion
A person shall not, in the DIFC or elsewhere, by any means, directly or indirectly, engage or participate in any act, practice or course of conduct relating to Investments that the person knows or reasonably ought to know:
(a) results in or contributes to, or may result in or contribute to, a false or misleading impression as to the supply of, demand for or price of one or more Investments;
(b) creates or is likely to create an artificial price for one or more Investments; or
(c) perpetrates a fraud on any person.
A person shall not, in the DIFC or elsewhere, disseminate information by any means which gives, or is likely to give, a false or misleading impression as to one or more Investments when such person knows or could reasonably be expected to know that the information is false or misleading.
A person shall not, in the DIFC or elsewhere, engage in any activity or conduct in relation to Investments, which consists of effecting transactions or orders to trade which employ fictitious devices or any other form of deception or contrivance.
A person shall not, in the DIFC or elsewhere, engage in any activity or conduct in relation to Investments, which does not fall under Articles 54, 55 or 56, that:
(a) gives a false or misleading impression as to the supply of, or demand for, or as to the price of one or more Investments; or
(b) would distort, or would be likely to distort, the market for one or more Investments; and
(c) is likely to be regarded by market participants as a failure on the part of the person concerned to observe the standard of behaviour reasonably expected of a person in his position in relation to the market.
(1) A person who is an insider shall not, in the DIFC or elsewhere, directly or indirectly, deal, or attempt to deal, in an Investment, or in a related investment, on the basis of inside information.
(2) In this Article "Investment" does not include "commodity derivatives."
(1) An insider shall not, other than in the necessary course of business, disclose inside information to another person.
(2) An insider shall not procure another person to deal in the Investments or related investments in which the insider has inside information.
(3) In this Article:
"procure" includes:
where a person induces or encourages another person by direct or indirect means.
A person shall not, in the DIFC or elsewhere, induce another person to deal in Investments:
(a) by making or publishing a statement, promise or forecast if the person knows, or is reckless as to whether, the statement is misleading, false or deceptive;
(b) by a concealment of material facts; or
(c) by recording or storing information that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material respect or may be materially misleading.
A person shall not, in the DIFC or elsewhere, engage in any activity or conduct in relation to Investments, which does not fall under Articles 58, 59 or 60:
(a) by using information which is not generally available to market participants which, if available to a market participant, would be, or would be likely to be, regarded by him as relevant when deciding the terms on which transactions in Investments should be effected; and
(b) is likely to be regarded by market participants as a failure on the part of the person concerned to observe the standard of behaviour reasonably expected of a person in his position in relation to the market.
Articles 54 to 61 do not apply to conduct which occurs outside the DIFC unless the conduct affects the DIFC markets or users of the DIFC markets.
(1) In this Part, in relation to Investments, or related investments,
(a) "inside information" means information of a precise nature which:
(i) is not generally available;
(ii) relates, directly or indirectly, to one or more Reporting Entities or the issuer of the Investments concerned or to one or more of the Investments; and
(iii) would, if generally available, be likely to have a significant effect on the price of the Investments or on the price of related investments; and
(b) "insider" means a person who has inside information:
(i) as a result of his membership of the board of Directors, or the Governing Body of the relevant Reporting Entity;
(ii) as a result of his holding in the capital of the relevant Reporting Entity;
(iii) as a result of having access to the information through the exercise of his employment, profession or duties;
(iv) as a result of his criminal activities; or
(v) which he has obtained by other means and which he knows, or could reasonably be expected to know, is inside information.
(2) In Article 63(1)(a) information is precise if it:
(a) indicates circumstances that exist or may reasonably be expected to come into existence or an event that has occurred or may reasonably be expected to occur; and
(b) is specific enough to enable a conclusion to be drawn as to the possible effect of those circumstances or that event on the price of Investments or related investments.
(3) In Article 63(1)(a)(iii), information would be likely to have a significant effect on price if and only if it is information of the kind which a reasonable investor would be likely to use as part of the basis of his investment decisions.
(4) For the purposes of Article 63(1)(a), information about a person's pending orders in relation to an Investment or related investment is also inside information.
(5) In Article 63(1)(a)(i), information which can be obtained by research or analysis conducted by, or on behalf of, users of a market is to be regarded, for the purposes of this Part, as being generally available to them.
(6) In this Part, in relation to an Investment (the "First Investment"), a "related investment" means another Investment whose price or value depends, in whole or in part, on the price or value of the First Investment.