Overseas investment permissions require foreign residents to use prescribed entry routes, limits and conditions for debt and derivatives trading. Permission for investments by persons resident outside India is subject to prescribed entry routes, investment limits and attendant conditionalities; debt instrument purchases or sales require Reserve Bank permission in consultation with the Central Government and compliance with Schedule 1; exchange traded derivatives approved by the securities regulator may be traded subject to that regulator's limits and Schedule 1 conditions; other derivative contracts are subject to conditions laid down by the Reserve Bank.