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 43: Investigation into cases under the Act.
    Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), any offence punishable under this Act may also be investigated into by such authority as the Central Government may specify in this behalf and the authority so specified shall have all the powers which an officer-in-charge of a police station has while making an investigation into a cognizable offence.
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