Foreign investment office establishment rules restrict and regulate foreign entities setting up branch, liaison, project or other offices. The notification establishes the Foreign Exchange Management (Establishment in India of a branch office or a liaison office or a project office or any other place of business) Regulations, 2016 under Section 6(6) of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, superseding Notification No. FEMA 22/2000-RB, to prohibit, restrict and regulate establishment in India by persons resident outside India and sets the commencement upon publication in the Official Gazette.