Unique identification numbers required for investors before trading, dealing, or subscribing to securities; intermediaries must verify allotment. Regulation 6 requires specified investors to be allotted a unique identification number before buying, selling, dealing in, or subscribing to listed securities or units of mutual funds and collective investment schemes. Bodies corporate must ensure the entity and its promoters and directors have numbers; Foreign Portfolio Investors, sub-accounts and Foreign Venture Capital Investors are similarly covered. Intermediaries may not transact for investors without an allotted number. Applicants who have filed under Regulation 9 are exempt until their application or appeal is disposed of.