The legal basis of the operation of the National Depository for Securities is laid down in the following legislation:

1. Operating regulations:

• Act on Trading in Financial Instruments; Act on Public Offering, Conditions Governing the Introduction of Financial Instruments to Organised Trading, and Public Companies;
• Act on Capital Market Supervision; 

Other Acts regulating the financial market including the Act on Settlement Finality in Payment and Securities Settlement Systems and the Rules of Oversight of these Systems;

• Act on Organisation and Operation of Pension Funds;
• Rules of the National Depository for Securities; 
• Regulations issued on the basis of the NDS Rules: 
• Detailed Rules of Operation of the National Depository for Securities; 
• Registration Procedures of the National Depository for Securities – Annex to the Detailed Rules of Operation of the National Depository for Securities;
• Rules of the Court of Arbitration at the National Depository for Securities;
• Rules of the Settlement Guarantee Fund;
• Rules of the Guarantee Fund Securing the Clearing of Transactions Executed in the Alternative Trading System Organised by the Warsaw Stock Exchange;
• Rules of the Guarantee Fund Securing the Clearing of Transactions Executed in the Alternative Trading System Organised by BondSpot S.A.;
• Rules of Operation of the Compensation Scheme;
• Rules of Transfer Payments between Open-ended Pension Funds;
• National Depository for Securities Rules of Behaviour for Prevention of Introduction to Financial Trading by KDPW Clients of Assets Originating from Illegal or Undisclosed Sources and Financing of Terrorism;
• Rules of the Exchange Clearing House of the National Depository for Securities;
• Regulations issued under the Rules of the Exchange Clearing House of the National Depository for Securities: Detailed Rules of Establishing Collateral, Clearing and Settlement of Transactions Executed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange Commodity Market poee by the Exchange Clearing House of the National Depository for Securities;
   

2. Corporate regulations:
 

• Code of Commercial Companies; 
• Statute of the National Depository for Securities; 
• Rules of the General Meeting of the National Depository for Securities; 
• Rules of the Supervisory Board of the National Depository for Securities; 
• Rules of the Management Board of the National Depository for Securities; 
• Organisational Rules of the National Depository for Securities.