Securities And Exchange Board Of India - Subsection
Section 2(1)(p) in Securities and Exchange Board of India (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011
(p)"offer period" means the period between the date of entering into an agreement, formal or informal, to acquire shares, voting rights in, or control over a target company requiring a public announcement, or the date of the public announcement, as the case may be, and the date on which the payment of consideration to shareholders who have accepted the open offer is made, or the date on which open offer is withdrawn, as the case may be;