Act Number: 42

Act Name: The Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999

Year: 1999

Enactment Date: 1999-12-29

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to foreign exchange with the objective of facilitating external trade and payments and for promoting the orderly development and maintenance of foreign exchange market in India.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Economic Affairs

Section 41: Power of Central Government to give directions.
    For the purposes of this Act, the Central Government may, from time to time, give to the Reserve Bank such general or special directions as it thinks fit, and the Reserve Bank shall, in the discharge of its functions under this Act, comply with any such directions.
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