Electoral bond amendment: additional short election-period purchase window specified by Central Government in assembly poll years. The Electoral Bond (Amendment) Scheme, 2022 inserts into paragraph 8 of the Electoral Bond Scheme, 2018 a provision permitting the Central Government to specify an additional period of fifteen days in the year of general elections to the Legislative Assembly of States and Union territories with Legislature; the Scheme is made under Section 31(3) of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 and takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette.