Central Government exempts all the Government organisations from the operation of all the provisions of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 with effect from 30th January, 2020 if such organisations are under compulsorily audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG).
MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS
ORDER
New Delhi, the 30th January, 2020
S.O. 459(E). Whereas the Central Government is of the opinion that it is necessary and expedient in the interest of the general public to exempt organisations (not being a political party), constituted or established by or under a Central Act or a State Act or by any administrative or executive order of the Central Government or any State Government and wholly owned by the respective Government and required to have their amounts compulsorily audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) or any of the agencies of the CAG, from the operation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (42 of 2010);
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 50 of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 and in supersession of the Order of the Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs published in the Official Gazette vide number S.O. 1492(E), dated the 1st July, 2011, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government hereby exempts all the said organisations from the operation of all the provisions of the said Act with effect from the date of publication of this order in the Official Gazette.
[F. No. 11/21022/23(37)/2019-FCRA-111]
ANIL MALIK, Addl. Secy.
