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 6: Detention orders not to be invalid or inoperative on certain grounds.
    No detention order shall be invalid or inoperative merely by reason--
         (a) that the person to be detained thereunder is outside the limits of the territorial jurisdiction of the Government or the officer making the order of detention, or
         (b) that the place of detention of such person is outside the said limits.
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