Act Number: 52

Act Name: The Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974

Year: 1974

Enactment Date: 1974-12-13

Long Title: An Act to provide for preventive detention in certain cases for the purposes of conservation and augmentation of Foreign Exchange and prevention of smuggling activities and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Revenue

Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement.
    (1) This Act may be called the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974.
     (2) It extends to the whole of India.
     (3) It shall come into force on such date1 (being a date not later than the twentieth day of December, 1974), as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes:
1. 19th December, 1974, vide notification No. G.S.R. 690(E), dated 16th December, 1974, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 (i).
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