Applicability of issue regulations clarifies which public, rights, preferential, placement and bonus issues fall within regulatory scope and exemptions. These regulations apply to specified capital-raising and listing events including IPOs by unlisted issuers, rights issues, further public offers, preferential issues, qualified institutional placements, IPOs and rights of Indian depository receipts, SME IPOs, listings on the innovators growth platform with or without an issue, and bonus issues; they exclude securities issued under certain clauses of the Takeover Regulations, and the text reflects later substitutions and omissions of earlier threshold-based provisions.