Act Number: 39

Act Name: The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003

Year: 2003

Enactment Date: 2003-08-26

Long Title: An Act to provide for the responsibility of the Central Government to ensure inter-generational equity in fiscal management and long-term macro-economic stability by achieving sufficient revenue surplus and removing fiscal impediments in the effective conduct of monetary policy and prudential debt management consistent with fiscal sustainability through limits on the Central Government borrowings, debt and deficits, greater transparency in fiscal operations of the Central Government and conducting fiscal policy in a medium-term framework and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Economic Affairs

Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement.
    (1) This Act may be called the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003.
     (2) It extends to the whole of India.
     (3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf.
Notes:
1. 5th July, 2004, vide notification No. G.S.R. 395(E), dated 2nd July, 2004, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(i)
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