Section 21
Intimation by candidate for election.
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010
About this 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.
Every candidate for election, who had received any
foreign contribution, at any time within one hundred and eighty days immediately preceding the date on
which he is duly nominated as such candidate, shall give, within such time and in such manner as may be
prescribed, an intimation to the Central Government or prescribed authority or both as to the amount of
foreign contribution received by him, the source from which, and the manner in which, such foreign
contribution was received and the purposes for which and the manner in which such foreign contribution
was utilised by him.