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 14A: Power of recover arrears of penalty.
    1 [14A. Power of recover arrears of penalty.--(1) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the Adjudicating Authority may, by order in writing, authorise an officer of Enforcement not below the rank of Assistant Director to recover any arrears of penalty from any person who fails to make full payment of penalty imposed on him under section 13 within the period of ninety days from the date on which the notice for payment of such penalty is served on him.
     (2) The officer referred to in sub-section (1) shall exercise all the like powers which are conferred on the income-tax authority in relation to recovery of tax under the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) and the procedure laid down under the Second Schedule to the said Act shall mutatis mutandis apply in relation to recovery of arrears of penalty under this Act.]
Notes:
1. Section 14A shall stand inserted (date to be notified) by Act 28 of 2016, s. 229.
Scroll to Top