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The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act

An Act to consolidate the law to regulate the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality by certain individuals or associations or companies and to prohibit acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality for any activities detrimental to the national interest and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
2010
List of Chapters & Sections

  1. PRELIMINARY

  2. 1
     Short title, extent, application and commencement
  3. 2
     Definitions

  • REGULATION OF FOREIGN CONTRIBUTION AND FOREIGN HOSPITALITY

  • 3
     Prohibition to accept foreign contribution
  • 4
     Persons to whom section 3 shall not apply
  • 5
     Procedure to notify an organisation of a political nature
  • 6
     Restriction on acceptance of foreign hospitality
  • 7
     Prohibition to transfer foreign contribution to other person
  • 8
     Restriction to utilise foreign contribution for administrative purpose
  • 9
     Power of Central Government to prohibit receipt of foreign contribution, etc., in certain cases
  • 10
     Power to prohibit payment of currency received in contravention of the Act

  • REGISTRATION

  • 11
     Registration of certain persons with Central Government
  • 12
     Grant of certificate of registration
  • 13
     Suspension of certificate
  • 14
     Cancellation of certificate
  • 15
     Management of foreign contribution of person whose certificate has been cancelled or surrendered
  • 16
     Renewal of certificate

  • ACCOUNTS, INTIMATION, AUDIT AND DISPOSAL OF ASSETS, ETC.

  • 17
     Foreign contribution through scheduled bank
  • 18
     Intimation
  • 19
     Maintenance of accounts
  • 20
     Audit of accounts
  • 21
     Intimation by candidate for election
  • 22
     Disposal of assets created out of foreign contribution

  • INSPECTION, SEARCH AND SEIZURE

  • 23
     Inspection of accounts or records
  • 24
     Seizure of accounts or records
  • 25
     Seizure of article or currency or security received in contravention of the Act
  • 26
     Disposal of seized article or currency or security
  • 27
     Seizure to be made in accordance with Act 2 of 1974

  • ADJUDICATION

  • 28
     Confiscation of article or currency or security obtained in contravention of the Act
  • 29
     Adjudication of confiscation
  • 30
     Procedure for confiscation

  • APPEAL AND REVISION

  • 31
     Appeal
  • 32
     Revision of orders by Central Government

  • OFFENCES AND PENALTIES

  • 33
     Making of false statement, declaration or delivering false accounts
  • 34
     Penalty for article or currency or security obtained in contravention of section 10
  • 35
     Punishment for contravention of any provision of the Act
  • 36
     Power to impose additional fine where article or currency or security is not available for confiscation
  • 37
     Penalty for offences where no separate punishment has been provided
  • 38
     Prohibition of acceptance of foreign contribution
  • 39
     Offences by companies
  • 40
     Bar on prosecution of offences under the Act
  • 41
     Composition of certain offences

  • MISCELLANEOUS

  • 42
     Power to call for information or document
  • 43
     Investigation into cases under the Act
  • 44
     Returns by prescribed authority to Central Government
  • 45
     Protection of action taken in good faith
  • 46
     Power of Central Government to give directions
  • 47
     Delegation of powers
  • 48
     Power to make rules
  • 49
     Orders and rules to be laid before Parliament
  • 50
     Power to exempt in certain cases
  • 51
     Act not to apply to certain Government transactions
  • 52
     Application of other laws not barred
  • 53
     Power to remove difficulties
  • 54
     Repeal and saving