7Rules of Board of Trade with respect to conduct of business of licensed dealers
(1)The Board of Trade may make rules for regulating the conduct of business by holders of licences, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this subsection, such rules may make provision for all or any of the following matters, that is to say:—
(a)for determining the class of persons in relation to whom, and the manner and circumstances in which, any holder of a licence may deal in securities;
(b)for prescribing forms of contracts which may be used in making contracts under the authority of a licence, and directing that where any contract is made under the authority of a licence otherwise than in the appropriate form prescribed by the rules, the holder of the licence shall, for the purposes of the preceding provisions of this Act relating to the refusal and revocation of licences, be deemed to have committed a breach of the rules;
(c)for prescribing the books, accounts and other documents which must be kept by the holder of a principal's licence in relation to any dealing in securities under the authority of such a licence;
(d)for requiring the holder of a principal's licence to produce, for inspection by, or by an agent of, the person with whom he has made any agreement by way of a dealing in securities under the authority of such a licence as aforesaid, such contract notes and vouchers as may be prescribed by the rules, and to furnish to that person, on demand and on payment of the prescribed fee, copies of entries in books kept by the holder which relate to the transaction.
(2)A person shall not be guilty of an offence by reason only of a breach of rules made under this section.
(3)Whenever the Board of Trade propose to make any rules under this section, they shall cause to be published, in such manner as they think best adapted for informing persons affected, notice of the intention of the Board to make the rules, specifying the place where a draft of the rules may be inspected and copies thereof obtained, and the price at which such copies will be supplied, and the time within which written objections and representations with respect to the draft rules may be made to the Board; and the Board shall, before making the rules, consider any such objections and representations made to them within the said time, and may make the rules with or without modification of the terms of the draft.