Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976
30. Power to make rules
(1) The Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the
provisions of this Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to
the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of
the following matters, namely,-
(a) the time within
which, and the manner in which, intimation is to be given by an association
referred to in section 6, with regard to the foreign contributions received by
it;
(b) the limits up to
which receipt of scholarship, stipends or payments of a like nature need not be
intimated to the Central Government;
(c) the time within
which, and the manner in which, intimation is to be given by persons receiving
any scholarship, stipend or any payment of a like nature from a foreign source;
(d) the time within
which, and the manner in which a candidate for election should give intimation
as to the amount of foreign contribution received by him at any time within one
hundred and eighty days from the date when he became such candidate;
(e) the form and
manner in which an application shall be made for obtaining prior permission of
the Central Government to receive foreign contribution or foreign hospitality;
(f) the manner of
service of the prohibitory order made under section 12;
(g) the form and
manner in which account or record referred to in section 13 shall be
maintained;
(h) the limits up to
which an officer, not below the rank of an Assistant Sessions Judge, may make
adjudication of confiscation;
(i) any other matter
which is required to be, or may be, prescribed.
(3) Every rule made by the Central Government
under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each
House of Parliament, while it is in session for a total period of thirty days
which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions,
and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or
the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification
in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall
thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the
case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be
without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.