Section 1 - Short title, extent, application and commencement. - Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010

FOREIGN CONTRIBUTION (REGULATION) ACT, 2010 (As passed as on 26-9-2010) (No. 42 of 2010) 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. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-First Year of the Republic of India as follows: CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY Short title, extent, application and commencement. 1. ( 1 ) This Act may be called the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010. ( 2 ) It extends to the whole of India, and it shall also apply to ( a ) citizens of India outside India; and ( b ) associate branches or subsidiaries, outside India, of companies or bodies corporate, registered or incorporated in India. ( 3 ) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint: Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision. **************** NOTES:- 1. Shall come into force w.e.f. 1st day of May, 2011 vide Notification No. S.O. 909(E) dated 29-11-2011