Act Number: 42

Act Name: The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010

Year: 2010

Enactment Date: 2010-09-26

Long Title: An Act to consolidate the law to regulate the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality by certain individuals or associations or companies and to prohibit acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality for any activities detrimental to the national interest and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Internal Security

Section 33: Making of false statement, declaration or delivering false accounts.
    Any person, subject to this Act, who knowingly,—
         (a) gives false intimation under clause (c) of section 9 or section 18; or
         (b) seeks prior permission or registration by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of material fact,
shall, on conviction by a court, be liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine or with both.
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