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CHAPTER 1 - TRADING PARAMETERS... 2 Authority... 2 Unit of Trading... 2 Months Traded In... 2 Tick Size... 2 Basis Price... 2 Unit for Price Quotation... 2 Hours of Trading... 2 Last Day of Trading... 2 Mark to Market... 2 Position limits... 2 Margin Requirements... 3 Special Margin... 3 Additional Margin... 3 Delivery Margins... 3 Delivery Default Penalty... 3 Arbitration... 4 Compliance of Laws:... 4 CHAPTER 2 - DELIVERY PROCEDURES... 5 Unit of Delivery... 5 Delivery Size... 5 Delivery Requests... 5 Delivery Allocation... 5 Actual Delivery... 5 Approved Warehouse/ vault... 5 Quality Standards... 6 Packaging... 6 Standard Allowances... 6 Weight... 6 Good/ Bad delivery Norms... 6 Quality Testing Report... 6 Testing Procedure... 6 Validity period... 6 Electronic transfer... 6 Charges... 7 Duties & levies... 7 Stamp Duty... 7 Taxes... 7 Premium/ Discount... 7 CHAPTER 3 - CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT... 8 Daily Settlement... 8 Daily Settlement Prices... 8 Final Settlement Prices... 8 Spot Prices... 8 Dissemination of Spot Prices... 8 Pay in and Pay out for Daily Settlement / Final Settlement... 8 Pay in and Pay out for final physical settlement... 9 Early Pay in of Commodities... 9 Supplementary Settlement for Taxes...10 Completion of Settlement on Exchange Platform...10 Exhibit 1 Contract Specifications of Gold Hedge 100 Grams...11 Exhibit 2 Warehouse/ vault Details...15 Exhibit 3 - Good/ Bad delivery norms...15-1-

CHAPTER 1 - TRADING PARAMETERS Authority Trading in Gold (SYMBOL: GOLDH100) Futures contracts may be conducted under such terms and conditions as specified in the Rules, Byelaws and Regulations of the Exchange and as per the directions issued by the Exchange thereunder or the Forward Markets Commission from time to time. A specimen of Gold (SYMBOL: GOLDH100) Futures contract specification is indicated in Exhibit 1. Unit of Trading The unit of trading shall be 100 grams. Bids and offers may be accepted in lots of 100 grams or multiples thereof. Months Traded In Trading in Gold futures contract may be conducted in the months as specified by the Exchange from time to time. Tick Size The tick size of the price of Gold Hedge contract shall be Re. 1 Basis Price The basis price of Gold contract shall be Ex-Ahmedabad, exclusive of Customs Duty, Local Sales Tax/VAT/Octroi, and any other charges or levies Unit for Price Quotation The unit of price quotation for Gold contracts shall be in Rupees per 10 gms of Gold with 995 fineness. Hours of Trading The hours of trading for futures in Gold Hedge shall be as follows: Mondays through Fridays 10.00 AM to 11.30 PM/ 11.55 PM* Expiry date at 11:30 PM/ 11:55 PM *Please note that during US daylight saving timings, the trade timings from Monday through Fridays would be from 10 A.M. to 11.55 P.M. or as determined by the Exchange from time to time. All timings are as per Indian Standard Timings (IST) *During US day light saving period. The Exchange may change the above timing with due notice. Last Day of Trading The contract shall expire two trading days prior to the last trading day of the contract expiry month. If the day happens to be a holiday, contract would expire on the preceding trading day. Mark to Market The outstanding positions in futures contract in Gold would be marked to market daily based on the Daily Settlement Price (DSP) as determined by the Exchange. Position limits Member wise: 12.50 MT or 15% of market wide open position whichever is higher For all Gold contracts combined together. -2-

Client-wise: 2.50 MT For all Gold contracts combined together. The above position limits will not apply to bona fide hedgers. For bona fide hedgers, the Exchange will, on a case to case basis, decide the hedge limits. Please refer to Circular No. NCDEX/CLEARING-018/2014/228 dated July 22, 2014. Margin Requirements NCDEX will use Value at Risk (VaR) based margin calculated at 99.95% confidence interval for one day time horizon. NCDEX reserves the right to change, reduce or levy any additional margins including any markup margin. Special Margin In case of unidirectional price movement/ increased volatility, an additional/ special margin at such other percentage, as deemed fit by the Regulator/ Exchange, may be imposed on the buy and the sell side or on either of the buy or sell sides in respect of all outstanding positions. Reduction/ removal of such additional/ special margins shall be at the discretion of the Regulator/Exchange. Additional Margin In addition to the above margins the Regulator/Exchange may impose additional margins on both long and short side at such other percentage, as deemed fit. Removal of such Margins will be at the discretion of the Regulator/Exchange. Delivery Margins In case of positions materializing into physical delivery, delivery margins will be charged for each commodity to mitigate the risks arising thereof. The delivery margins charged would be computed as look ahead period ( N days) VaR margins or a fixed percentage delivery margin, whichever is higher. For further details, participants can refer to circular no. NCDEX/RISK-004/2013/073 dated March 12, 2013. Delivery Default Penalty The penalty structure for failure to meet delivery obligations by the sellers is as follows: Total amount of penalty = 2.5 % + the difference between the Final Settlement Price (FSP) and the spot price prevailing on the last day of pay-in/pay-out of the expired contract, if the said spot price is higher than FSP; else this component will be zero. The 2.5 % penalty collected as mentioned above shall be used as follows: a) 2 % component of the penalty shall be deposited in the Settlement Guarantee Fund of the Exchange; b) 0.5 % component of the penalty shall go to the opposite party; and c) If the spot price on the last day of pay-in/pay-out of the expired contract is higher than the FSP, then the difference between the FSP and the spot price prevailing on the said latter day shall also go to the opposite party. Buyer s defaults are not permitted. The amount due from the buyers shall be recovered from the buyer as Pay in shortage together with prescribed charges. Exchange shall have right to sell the goods on account of such Buyer to recover the dues and if the sale proceeds are insufficient, the Buyer would be liable to pay the balance. -3-

Please refer circular no. NCDEX/TRADING-091/2007/235 dated October 4, 2007, NCDEX/TRADING 097/2007/247 dated October 17, 2007 and NCDEX/CLEARING- 021/2014/271 dated September 09, 2014. Arbitration Disputes between the members of the Exchange inter-se and between members and constituents, arising out of or pertaining to trades done on NCDEX shall be settled through arbitration. The arbitration proceedings and appointment of arbitrators shall be as governed by the Bye-laws and Regulations of the Exchange. Compliance of Laws: It is clarified that it is the sole obligation and responsibility of the Members and market participants to ensure that apart from the approved quality standards stipulated by the Exchange, the commodity deposited / traded / delivered through the Approved warehouse/s of the Exchange or Vault/s notified by the Exchange is in due compliance with the applicable regulations laid down by authorities like Food Safety Standard Authority of India, AGMARK, BIS, Orders under Packaging and Labelling etc., as also other State/Central laws and authorities issuing such regulations in this behalf from time to time, including but not limited to compliance of provisions and rates relating to Sales Tax, Value Added Tax, APMC Tax, Mandi Tax, LBT, Octroi, Excise duty, stamp duty, etc. as applicable from time to time on the underlying commodity of any contract offered for deposit / trading / delivery and the Exchange shall not be responsible or liable on account of any non-compliance thereof. -4-

CHAPTER 2 - DELIVERY PROCEDURES Unit of Delivery The unit of delivery for Gold shall be 100 grams Delivery Size Delivery is to be offered and accepted in lots of 100 grams Net only or multiples thereof. No quantity variation is permitted as per contract specification given in Exhibit 1. Delivery Requests The procedure for Gold delivery is based on the contract specifications as per Exhibit 1. Sellers & Buyers having open positions are required to give their intentions/ notice to deliver to the extent of his open position, at least 3 trading days before the expiry of the contract. Accordingly, the window for acceptance of delivery requests will be open for 3 days as notified. The window will close 3 days prior to the expiry date of the contract. Members giving delivery requests for the commodities are not permitted to square off their open positions once such request is made. A penalty of 5% of final settlement price on the position squared off, if any, will be levied besides any further action as deemed fit by the Exchange. NCDEX would thereafter complete the matching process based on the location and by random, keeping in view the storage capacity of warehouse/ vault and Gold already deposited/ available in electronic form for delivery or any other factor(s) that the Exchange deems appropriate for completion of the matching process. The Penalty structure for failure to meet delivery obligations will be as per circular no. NCDEX/TRADING-091/2007/235 dated October 4, 2007, NCDEX/TRADING 097/2007/247 dated October 17, 2007 and NCDEX/CLEARING-021/2014/271 dated September 09, 2014. Delivery Allocation The Exchange would then compile delivery requests received from members on the last trading day, as specified in Chapter 1 above. The buyers/ sellers who have to receive/ give delivery would be notified on the same day after the close of trading hours. Delivery of Gold is to be accepted by Buyers at the Approved warehouse(s)/ vault where the Seller effects delivery in accordance with the contract specifications. Actual Delivery Where Gold is sold for delivery in a specified month, the seller must have requisite electronic credit of such Gold holding in his Clearing Member s Pool Account before the scheduled date of pay in. On settlement the buyer s Clearing Member s Pool Account would be credited with the said delivery quantity on pay out. The Clearing Member is expected to transfer the same to the buyer s Comtrack account. Gold certified from any approved refiners specified by the Exchange on the Settlement day is accepted as good delivery on the Exchange. The list of approved refiners by NCDEX is available on www.ncdex.com\downloads\refiners_gold.pdf Approved Warehouse/ vault NCDEX has approved warehouse/ vault for receipt and delivery of Gold. Gold will only be received at and delivered from the NCDEX Approved warehouse/ vault. The details of the NCDEX Approved warehouse/ vault are as per Exhibit 2. -5-

Quality Standards The contract quality for delivery of Gold Hedge futures contracts shall be Gold conforming to the quality parameters indicated in the contract specifications. No lower grade/ quality shall be accepted in satisfaction of futures contracts for delivery except as and to the extent provided in the contract specifications. Delivery of higher grade would be accepted without premium. Packaging Gold should be delivered in 100 grams bar net basis only, without any quantity variation as per details given in Exhibit I. Standard Allowances There is no standard allowance. Weight The quantity of Gold received and or delivered at the NCDEX Approved warehouse/ vault would be determined/ calculated by the weight corresponding with serial number as indicated in the respective Refinery certificate submitted at the time of delivery into the Approved warehouse/ vault and would be binding on all parties. Good/ Bad delivery Norms Gold delivery into NCDEX Approved warehouse/ vault would constitute good delivery or bad delivery based on the good/ bad delivery norms as per Exhibit 3. The list contained in Exhibit 3 is only illustrative and not exhaustive. NCDEX would from time to time review and update the good/ bad delivery norms retaining the trade/ industry practices. Quality Testing Report Gold delivered into the NCDEX Approved warehouse/ vault must be accompanied with the certificate from the Exchange approved refinery. Testing Procedure The Gold bars to be accepted at the Approved warehouse/ vault shall be directly imported and hallmarked from the approved list of refiners, through the approved logistics agency i.e. Brinks Arya India (Pvt.) Ltd. or their affiliates/ associates. The Gold bars delivered at the Exchange Approved warehouse/ vault, indicated in Exhibit 2, should bear the refinery serial no. and accompanied by the Refinery certificate. Gold held at the NCDEX Approved warehouse/ vault will be on unallocated basis i.e. it may be co - mingled with Gold bars belonging to the participants of NCDEX. Validity period The validity period for the Assayer s Certificate for Gold is till the actual physical withdrawal from the warehouse/ vault. Electronic transfer Any buyer or seller receiving and/ or effecting Gold delivery would have to open a Comtrack account with an NCDEX empanelled Comtrack Participant (CP) to hold the credit for Gold holdings in electronic form. On settlement, the buyer s account with the CP would be credited with the quantity of Gold received and the corresponding seller s account would be debited. The Buyer wanting to take physical delivery of the Gold holding has to make a request in prescribed form to his CP with whom Comtrack account has been opened. The CP would route the request to the warehouse/ vault for issue of the physical commodity i.e. Gold to the buyer and debit his account, thus reducing the electronic balance to the extent of Gold holdings so withdrawn. -6-

Charges All charges and costs payable at the Approved warehouse/ vault towards delivery of Gold including sampling, grading, weighing, handling charges, storage etc. from the date of receipt into Approved warehouse/ vault upto date of pay in & settlement shall be borne by the seller. No refund for warehouse/ vault charges paid by the seller for full validity period shall be given to the seller or buyer incase of delivery earlier than the validity period. All charges and costs associated & including storage, handling etc. after the pay out shall be borne by the buyer. Warehouse/ vault storage charges will be charged to the client by the respective Comtrack Participant. Duties & levies All duties, levies etc. up to the point of sale will have to be fully borne by the seller and shall be paid to the concerned authority. All related documentation should be completed before delivery of Gold into the NCDEX Approved warehouse/ vault. Stamp Duty Stamp duty is payable on all contract notes issued as may be applicable in the State from where the contract note is issued or State in which such contract note is received by the client. Taxes Service tax Service tax will be payable by the members of Commodity Exchanges on the gross amount charged by them from their clients on account of dealing in commodities. Sales Tax/ VAT Local taxes/ VAT wherever applicable is to be paid by the seller to the sales tax/vat authorities on all contracts resulting in delivery. Accordingly the buyer will have to pay the taxes/ VAT to the seller at the time of settlement. Members and/ or their constituents requiring to receive or deliver Gold should register with the relevant tax/ VAT authorities of the place where the delivery is proposed to be received/ given. In the event of sales tax exemption, such exemption certificate should be submitted before settlement of the obligation. There will be no exemptions on account of resale or second sale in VAT regime. Commodities Transaction Tax CTT shall be applicable on notified commodities in terms of the Tax Rules applicable from time to time. Currently CTT is applicable @ 0.01% on the notified commodities a list whereof is available in public domain. Members are advised to keep themselves updated on the list of commodities on which CTT shall apply and the change in rate if any. CTT is applicable on sale transactions of Gold futures contracts at the rate of 0.01%. Premium/ Discount No premium or discount on the basis of quality specifications will be applicable for Gold. -7-

CHAPTER 3 - CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT Daily Settlement All open positions of a futures contract would be settled daily based on the Daily Settlement Price (DSP). Daily Settlement Prices The Daily Settlement Price (DSP) will be as disseminated by the Exchange at the end of every trading day. The DSP will be reckoned for marking to market all open positions. Final Settlement Prices The Final Settlement Price (FSP) will be determined by the Exchange upon maturity of the contract. On expiry of the contract, the following types of open positions would be cash settled: a) Delivery information not provided. b) Unmatched delivery information. The Final settlement price will be calculated on the expiry date based on Closing International price on the day of expiry at RBI reference rate. The detailed calculation is as illustrated below: 1) Closing International price will be multiplied by 31.9899927 for calculating the equivalent of per Kg price from per ounce price. This is the price of 1 Kg of Gold in US$ of 995 purity. 2) Price arrived after step 1 will be multiplied by RBI reference rate on the day of expiry. This gives the price of 1 Kg Gold of 995 purity equivalent in INR. 3) The price arrived after step 2 is divided by 100 to get the Gold price for 10 Gms of 995 purity equivalent. 4) The price arrived after step 3 is rounded to nearest rupee The open positions for which information have been provided for and have been matched by the Exchange, would result in physical delivery. Spot Prices NCDEX will announce/ disseminate spot prices for Gold relating to the designated delivery center and specified grade/ quality parameters determined through the process of polling a set of market participants representing different segments of the value chain. The polled prices shall be input to a normalizing algorithm (like bootstrapping technique) to arrive at a representative, unbiased and clean benchmark spot price for Gold. The security of data and randomness of polling process will ensure transparency and correctness of prices. The Exchange has absolute right to modify the process of determination of spot prices at any time without notice. Dissemination of Spot Prices Spot prices for Gold will be disseminated on daily basis. Pay in and Pay out for Daily Settlement / Final Settlement For Gold the daily settlements will be as per the table illustrated below. As the FSP will be declared only on E+1 day the contract will be initially settled on E+1 using the Daily Settlement Price. Subsequently on E+2 after the declaration of FSP the difference between the FSP and the DSP will be settled. The buyer clients would have to deposit requisite funds with their respective Clearing Member before pay in on both the days. Example: For a contract is expiring on 28 th of a particular month (i.e. on E), the FSP will be available on the subsequent trading day (i.e.29 th of the month or E+1). -8-

The process of settlement will be done as follows: The Trading would be done on the expiring contract till the 28 th of the month (i.e. E day). The MTM Settlement will be done on the 28 th at the Daily Settlement Price for the contract. The actual funds settlement would be done on 29 th of the month (i.e. on E+1). The Final Settlement will be done with respect to the difference between Daily Settlement Price and Final Settlement Price as declared by the Exchange on 29th of the month (i.e. E+1). The Final funds pay in pay-out will be done on the 30th of the month (i.e. E+2). All fund debits and credits for Daily Settlement of the Member would be done in the Member s Settlement Account with the Clearing bank. Time (E+1) On or before 11.00 hrs After 13.00 hrs Activity PAYIN - Debit paying member a/c for funds PAYOUT Credit receiving member a/c for funds All fund debits and credits for difference of Daily Settlement Price and Final Settlement Price would be done in the Member s Settlement Account with the clearing Bank Time (E+2) On or before 11.00 hrs After 13.00 hrs Activity PAYIN - Debit paying member a/c for funds PAYOUT Credit receiving member a/c for funds Pay in and Pay out for final physical settlement The table below illustrates timings for pay in and pay out in case of physical settlement. The buyers / sellers would have to deposit requisite funds / Gold with their respective Clearing member before pay in. Pay in and Pay out for Final Settlement in case of physical deliveries Time (E+3) Activity On or before 12.00 PAYIN hrs - Debit Buyer Member Settlement a/c for funds - Debit Seller Member s/ Selling CM Pool Account for Gold After 14.30 hrs PAYOUT - Credit Seller Member Settlement a/c for funds - Credit Buyer Member s/ Buying CM Pool Account for Gold Additionally the supplemental settlement for Gold Hedge futures contracts for premium / discount adjustments relating to quality of Gold delivered, actual quantity delivered and close out for shortages, will also be conducted on the same day. Clearing Members are required to maintain adequate fund balances in their respective accounts. Pay in and Pay out for supplemental settlement Time (E + 3) Activity On or before 15.00 hours PAY IN - Debit Member Settlement a/c for funds After 15.00 hours PAY OUT Credit Member Settlement a/c for funds Early Pay in of Commodities Members can make an early pay in of commodities to get exemption from the applicable delivery margin and the same would be considered for the purpose of adjustment against their settlement obligations. The member shall mark EPI using the NCFE web application. The user guide for the same is available for download under:- NCFE Menu: Downloads-> Download files-> Under User Manual folder-> EPI user -9-

Supplementary Settlement for Taxes The Exchange will conduct a separate supplementary settlement, as illustrated below, three days after normal pay out for completion of tax transactions. In order to facilitate issue of invoice to right parties, the buyer Clearing Members are required to give the buyer client details to the Exchange latest by 15.00 hrs on E+4 day failing which the buying member is considered as the end buyer and accordingly invoice is issued in his/their name. The Seller Clearing Members are required to give the seller client details to the exchange latest by 15.00 hrs on E + 5 day. The amounts due to the above differences will be debited / credited to Member s clearing bank account similar to normal settlement. Pay in and Pay out for Taxes Time (E + 6) Activity On or before 11.00 hours PAY IN: Debit Buyer Member Settlement a/c for funds. After 11.00 hours PAY OUT: Credit Seller Member Settlement a/c for funds For further clarification and detailed procedure on sales tax settlement, participants can refer to circular number NCDEX/CLEARING-001/2008/002 issued on January 04, 2008. Completion of Settlement on Exchange Platform The settlement obligations on the Exchange platform shall be deemed to be completed as per the provisions of the Rules, Bye-laws and Regulations of the Exchange and the circulars issued by the Exchange thereunder from time to time. -10-

Exhibit 1 Contract Specifications of Gold Hedge 100 Grams (Applicable for contracts expiring in January 2015 and March 2015) (Updated on October 08, 2014) Type of Contract Name of Commodity Ticker symbol Trading System Basis Unit of trading Delivery unit Maximum Order Size Quotation/base value Futures Contract Specifications Gold GOLDH100 NCDEX Trading System Ex-Ahmedabad exclusive of Customs Duty, Local Sales Tax/VAT/Octroi and any other charges or levies. 100 Grams 100 Grams 5000 Grams Rs per 10 Grams of Gold with 995 fineness Tick size Re 1 Quality specification Gold bars of 995 fineness bearing a serial number and identifying stamp of a refiner approved by the Exchange. List of approved refiners is available at: www.ncdex.com\downloads\refiners_gold.pdf Quantity variation Delivery center Trading Hours Due date/expiry date None Ahmedabad As per directions of the Forward Markets Commission from Time to Time, currently: Mondays through Fridays 10:00 AM to 11:30 PM / 11:55 PM * Expiry Date at 11:30 PM / 11:55 PM * All timings are as per Indian Standard Timings (IST) *during US day light saving period. The Exchange may change the above timing with due notice. The contract shall expire two trading days prior to the last trading day of the contract expiry month. If the day happens to be a holiday, contract would expire on the preceding trading day. -11-

Delivery specification The buyer and seller shall give intentions of taking/giving delivery through the delivery request window at least three trading days prior to the expiry of the contracts and such intentions can be given during 3 days which would be notified separately. This will be matched by Exchange for physical delivery as per the process put in place by the Exchange. Closing of contract Final Settlement Price All open positions for which delivery intentions have not been received or for which delivery intentions have been rendered but remain unmatched for want of counterparty to settle delivery, will be cash settled at Final settlement Price on the expiry of the contract. The Final settlement price will be calculated on the expiry date based on Closing International price on the day of expiry at RBI reference rate. The detailed calculation is as illustrated below : 1. Closing International price will be multiplied by 31.9899927 for calculating the equivalent of per Kg price from per ounce price. This is the price of 1 Kg of Gold in US$ of 995 purity. 2. Price arrived after step 1 will be multiplied by RBI reference rate on the day of expiry. This gives the price of 1 Kg Gold of 995 purity equivalent in INR. 3. The price arrived after step 2 is divided by 100 to get the Gold price for 10 Gms of 995 purity equivalent. 4. The price arrived after step 3 is rounded to nearest rupee Opening of contracts No. of active contracts Price limit Trading in a new contract will open on the 1st day of the launch month. If the 1st happens to be a holiday, contracts would open on the succeeding trading day. As per launch calendar Base daily price fluctuation limit is (+/-) 3%. If the trade hits the prescribed base daily price limit, the limit will be relaxed up to (+/-) 6% without any break/ cooling off period in the trade. In case the daily price -12-

limit of (+/-) 6% is also breached, then after a cooling off period of 15 minutes, the daily price limit will be further relaxed up to (+/-) 9%. Trade will be allowed during the cooling off period within the price band of (+/-) 6%. In case of price movement in International markets which is more than the maximum daily price limit (currently 9%), the same may be further relaxed in steps of 3%. Position Limits Member wise: 12.50 MT or 15% of market wide open position whichever is higher For all Gold contracts combined together. Client-wise: 2.50 MT For all Gold contracts combined together. The above limits will not apply to bona fide hedgers. For bona fide hedgers, the Exchange will, on a case to case basis, decide the hedge limits. Please refer to Circular No. NCDEX/CLEARING-018/2014/228 dated July 22, 2014. Special Margin In case of unidirectional price movement/ increased volatility, an additional/ special margin at such other percentage, as deemed fit by the Regulator/Exchange, may be imposed on the buy and the sell side or on either of the buy or sell sides in respect of all outstanding positions. Reduction/ removal of such additional/ special margins shall be at the discretion of the Regulator/Exchange. Additional Margin In addition to the above margins the Regulator/Exchange may impose additional margins on both long and short side at such other percentage, as deemed fit. Removal of such Margins will be at the discretion of the Regulator/Exchange. Delivery Logic Intention Matching Minimum Initial Margin 5% -13-

Contract Launch Calendar Contract Launch Month Contract Expiry Month September 2014 January 2015 March 2015 Members and market participants who enter into buy and sell transactions may please note that they need to be aware of all the factors that go into the mechanism of trading and clearing, as well as all provisions of the Exchange's Bye Laws, Rules, Regulations, s, circulars, directives, notifications of the Exchange as well as of the Regulators, Governments and other authorities. It is clarified that it is the sole obligation and responsibility of the Members and market participants to ensure that apart from the approved quality standards stipulated by the Exchange, the commodity deposited / traded / delivered through the Approved warehouses/vaults is in due compliance with the applicable regulations laid down by authorities like BIS, Orders under Packaging and Labelling etc., as also other State/Central laws and authorities issuing such regulations in this behalf from time to time, including but not limited to compliance of provisions and rates relating to Sales Tax, Value Added Tax, APMC Tax, Mandi Tax, LBT, Octroi, Excise duty, stamp duty, etc. as applicable from time to time on the underlying commodity of any contract offered for deposit / trading / delivery and the Exchange shall not be responsible or liable on account of any non-compliance thereof. This product note is only an offer for using the Exchange trading platform for buy and sell of commodity derivatives Gold Hedge contract as per the contract specifications approved and is not an offer to buy or sell gold. -14-

Exhibit 2 Warehouse/ vault Details Warehouse/ vault Address & contact details BRINK S ARYA PVT. LTD Kailash Society, Bhagwan Nagar No. Tekro, Mahalaxmi Panch Rasta Paldi, Ahmedabad 380 006, Gujarat. Contact person: Mr. S K Menon Mobile: 09327016360/ 09327016670 Phone: 079-26605179 Exhibit 3 - Good/ Bad delivery norms No. Particulars Good/ Bad delivery 1. Delivery before contract expiration. Good delivery 2. Gold quality not meeting futures contract Bad delivery specification. 3. Delivery at non-approved warehouse/ vault. Bad delivery 4. Delivery completed but without certification. Bad delivery 5. Delivery without weight certificate. Bad delivery Delivery not compatible to delivery size as Bad delivery 6. mentioned in contract specification. 7. Delivery beyond specified working hours. Bad delivery 8. Delivery without proper documentation. Bad delivery 9. Deposit of Gold from any non approved LBMA Bad delivery refiner and not specified by the Exchange. 10. Gold bars of weight other than 1 Kg. (There is no allowable quantity variation.) Bad delivery -15-