BILL NO. 123 OF 2020
- (1) This Act may be called the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2020.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. - In section 3 of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in sub-section (1),—
(i) for clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—
“(c) public servant, Judge, Government servant or employee of any
corporation or any other body controlled or owned by the Government;”;
(ii) for the Explanation, the following Explanations shall be substituted,
namely:—
‘Explanation 1.—For the purpose of clause (c), “public servant” means a
public servant as defined in section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.
Explanation 2.—In clause (c) and section 6, the expression “corporation”
means a corporation owned or controlled by the Government and includes a Government company as defined in clause (45) of section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013.’.
