IEPF Authority
The Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority, to whose demat account companies must transfer, by corporate action, shares whose dividend has been unpaid or unclaimed for seven consecutive years or more.
This one is not written up yet
The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.
Written up from the same chapter
- Action Taken ReportThe reply an entity must upload on SCORES saying what it did about an investor complaint — it is routed straight to the complainant and starts the clock on their right to ask for a review.
- SCORESSEBI's centralised web-based system for processing investor complaints, on which the company or intermediary must upload an Action Taken Report and the investor can watch the status online.
- SCORES 2.0The version of SEBI's online complaint redress system launched on 1 April 2024, which auto-routes complaints, gives the entity 21 calendar days to file an Action Taken Report, and auto-escalates when it does not.
Where this is taught
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