The Toronto Stock Exchange says that certain market regulation functions will be transferred from Market Regulation Services Inc. to the TSE.

The effective date of the Universal Market Integrity Rules as the standard set of trading rules that RS will administer in its role as a regulation services provider is April 1. As of April 1, a number of market quality functions currently performed by the Market Surveillance division of RS will be transferred to the Trading Services division of the TSE.

The functions to be transferred include: market operations, openings, delays, system generated delayed openings, stocks freezes, cancellation; trading halts and suspensions; and, registered traders. Trading halts for regulatory purposes will continue to be managed by the Market Surveillance division of RS.