Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007
23. Settlement and
netting. -
1.
The
payment obligations and settlement instructions among the system participants
shall be determined in accordance with the gross or netting procedure, as the
case may be, approved by the Reserve Bank while issuing authorisation to a
payment system.
2.
Where
the rules providing for the operation of a payment system indicates a procedure
for the distribution of losses between the system participants and the payment
system, such procedure shall have effect notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force.
3.
A
settlement effected under such procedure shall be final and irrevocable.
4.
Where
a system participant is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction as
insolvent or is dissolved or wound up, then notwithstanding anything contained
in the Companies Act, 1956 or the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 or any other law
for the time being in force, the order of adjudication or dissolution or
winding up, as the case may be, shall not affect any settlement that has become
final and irrevocable and the right of the system provider to appropriate any
collaterals contributed by the system participant towards its settlement or
other obligations in accordance with the rules, regulations or bye-laws of such
system provider.
Explanation.-For the
removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the settlement, whether gross or
net, referred to in this section is final and irrevocable as soon as the money,
securities, foreign exchange or derivatives or other transactions payable as a result
of such settlement is determined, whether or not such money, securities or
foreign exchange or derivatives or other transactions is actually paid.