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Article 8
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A securities firm shall enter into a margin agreement with, and open a margin account for, a customer before accepting any order from the customer to carry out a margin purchase or short sale of securities.
The margin agreement under the preceding paragraph shall be prepared by the TWSE in conjunction with the GTSM and submitted to the competent authority for ratification.
A call (or put) warrant issuer, or a securities firm or bank engaged in structured products business or engaged in trading equity derivatives, may, to meet hedging needs, open a margin account and engage in short selling of securities.
An enterprise exclusively or concurrently engaged in futures proprietary trading (dealing) that is also a market maker for equity options or single stock futures may, for its risk mitigation or hedging needs, open a margin account with which to sell securities short.
In the case of a privately placed securities investment trust fund managed by a securities investment trust enterprise ("SITE"), the custodian of the trust fund may apply to open a margin account, for which the outstanding balance of long or short margin positions, combined with other sales of borrowed securities, may not exceed 50 percent of the size of the fund, and which shall be controlled by the TWSE as a segregated account. If that limit is exceeded, the TWSE shall through the securities firm notify the SITE to lower the balance to 50 percent within two business days from the date on which it receives the notice from the securities firm. If the SITE fails to do so within the time limit, the TWSE may instruct the securities firm to dispose of the collateral on the next business day, by the mutatis mutandis application of Article 39, paragraph 3, to the extent required to achieve compliance.
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In the case of a discretionary investment account managed by an SITE or a securities investment consulting enterprise (SICE), or of discretionary investment business conducted by a securities broker concurrently operating a SICE, or of discretionary futures trading business operated by a managed futures enterprise, the custodian institution for discretionary investment assets may open a margin account on behalf of its customer. For the margin account, neither the outstanding balance of margin purchase positions nor the outstanding balance of short sale positions, combined with the outstanding balance of other sales of borrowed securities, may exceed 50 percent of the net asset value of the discretionary investment account, except in the case of discretionary futures trading business operated by a managed futures enterprise, for which neither the outstanding balance of margin purchase positions nor the outstanding balance of short sale positions, combined with the outstanding balance of other sales of borrowed securities, may exceed 20 percent of the net asset value of the discretionary investment account.
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