Regulation 6 - Period for surrender in certain cases - Foreign Exchange Management (Realisation, Repatriation And Surrender of Foreign Exchange) Regulations, 2000

6. Period for surrender in certain cases :- (1) 1 Any person not being an individual resident in India who has acquired or purchased foreign exchange for any purpose mentioned in the declaration made by him to an authorised person under sub-section (5) of Section 10 of the Act does not use it for such purpose or for any other purpose for which purchase or acquisition of foreign exchange is permissible under the provisions of the Act or the rules or regulations or direction or order made thereunder, shall surrender such foreign exchange or the unused portion thereof to an authorised person within a period of sixty days from the date of its acquisition or purchase by him. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-regulation (1), where the foreign exchange acquired or 2 purchased by any person not being an individual resident in India from an authorised person is for the purpose of foreign travel, then, the unspent balance of such foreign exchange shall, save as otherwise provided in the regulations made under the Act, be surrendered to an authorised person - (i) within ninety days from the date of return of the traveller to India, when the unspent foreign exchange is in the form of currency notes and coins; and (ii) within one hundred eighty days from the date of return of the traveller to India, when the unspent foreign exchange is in the form of travellers cheques. ************************* Note : 1. For the words An person , the words Any person not being an individual resident in India has been substituted vide Notification No. 169/2007 dated 23/10/2007 (w.e.f. 18th day of May, 2007) 2. For the words purchased by any person , the words purchased by any person not being an individual resident in India has been substituted vide Notification No. 169/2007 dated 23/10/2007 (w.e.f. 18th day of May, 2007)