(1) These rules may be called the Fugitive Economic Offenders (Manner of Attachment of Property) Rules, 2018. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Economic Affairs)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 24th August, 2018
G.S.R. 804(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 23 of the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 (17 of 2018) and in supersession of the Fugitive Economic Offenders (Issuance of Attachment Order) Rules, 2018 and the Fugitive Economic Offenders (Issuance of Provisional Attachment Order) Rules, 2018, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:—
1. Short title and commencement.—
(1) These rules may be called the Fugitive Economic Offenders (Manner of Attachment of Property) Rules, 2018.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions.—
(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “authorised officer” means an officer not below the rank of Deputy Director authorised by the Director for the purposes of these rules;
(b) “attachment order” means an order for attachment of property under sub-section (1) or provisional attachment of property under sub-section (2), of section 5 of the Act;
(c) “Act” means the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 (17 of 2018);
(d) “section” means a section of the Act.
(2) All other words and expressions used and not defined in these rules, but defined in the Act, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.
3. Issuance of attachment order.—
(1) The Director or any authorised officer who makes an order for attachment of property under sub-section (1) or who provisionally attaches any property under sub-section(2), of section 5 of the Act shall endorse a copy of the attachment order to the fugitive economic offender and to persons who may have interest in any of the property listed in the attachment order including the persons in possession of the properties and a copy shall also be addressed to the Special Court.
(2) The service of attachment order shall be done in the following manner, namely:—
(a) by delivering or tendering the attachment order to the owner or person or to the person duly authorised by such owner or person; or
(b) if the owner or person is absent from his residence at the time when service of the attachment order is being effected on him and there is no likelihood of his being found at the residence within a reasonable time and he has not duly authorised any person to accept the service on his behalf, service may be made on any adult member in the family of such owner or person who is residing with him; or
(c) if the service cannot be effected as provided in clauses (a) and (b), the serving officer shall affix one of the duplicate of the attachment order at some conspicuous part of the premises in which the person or owner resides or is known to have last resided or carried on business or personally works or has worked for gain and that the written report thereof shall be witnessed by two persons.
(3) If the service cannot be effected under sub-rule (2), then the attachment order shall be published in a leading newspaper (both in vernacular and in English) having wide circulation in the area or jurisdiction in which the person resides or is known to have last resided or carried on business or personally works or last worked for gain.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in this rule, the attachment order may be sent to the owner or person simultaneously by speed post with proof of delivery at the address of his place of residence or his last known place of residence or the place where he carried on, or last carried on, business or personally works or last worked for gain.
4. Service of attachment order on corporate bodies, societies and trusts, etc.—
(1) (a) The attachment order on corporate bodies, societies and trust etc., shall be effected by serving it on the secretary, local manager or the principal officer of the corporate bodies, societies and trust etc., or by letter sent by speed post addressed to the chief officer of such bodies in India, in which case the service shall be deemed to have been effected.
(b) If the service cannot be effected as provided in clause (a), the serving officer shall affix one of the duplicate of the attachment order at some conspicuous part of the premises in which the office of the corporate body, society and trust etc., carries on business or has last carried on business.
(2) If the service cannot be effected under sub-rule (1), then the attachment order shall be published in a leading newspaper (both in vernacular and in English) having wide circulation in the area or jurisdiction where the corporate body, society and trust etc., carries on business or has last carried on business.
[F. No. 6/3/2017-FSLRC]
Dr. SHASHANK SAKSENA, Adviser (FSRL)
