Chapter II evolution of stock exchanges
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2.3.5 Stock Market Law
The legislative framework for securities markets in Arab countries is composed of laws, company acts and executive orders that govern the issuance and trading of shares. The stock market laws and Company act are of great importance, as well as other relevant legal instruments, such as the investment law, banking and the rules governing the auditing practices. The harmonization of laws relating to the issuance of the securities exchange and investment is necessary in order to adopt the legislative environment to the needs of the stock market. (Abusourour, 1997). Stock Market Act contains the basic rules relating to the objectives, management and financial organization. It also defines and regulates the relations of the market and determines the structure of the operation, the processes to be followed in listing and trading of shares and disclosure requirements. The laws of financial markets in a number of Arab countries dealing with the same basic issues and concern, including management and institutional structure, membership, listing requirements, financial disclosure, and trading and pricing procedures. The imposition of restrictions on foreign investment plays a major part in the development of stock market. In this context, the Arab countries can be divided into two groups. The first includes countries which do not impose any restrictions on foreign investments such as Amman, Algeria, Beirut, Egypt and Casablanca which removed all restrictions used to be imposed on foreign trading in the stock markets. The second group comprises countries where such restrictions exist in varying degrees such as Tunisia, and member states of the GCC (Sabri, 2008).
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