Prohibition to accept foreign contribution

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....tion; (b) correspondent, columnist, cartoonist, editor, owner, printer or publisher of a registered newspaper; ^1[(c) public servant, Judge, Government servant or employee of any corporation or any other body controlled or owned by the Government;] (d) member of any Legislature; (e) political party or office-bearer thereof; (f) organisation of....

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....ression "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 (18 of 2013).] (2) (a) No person, resident in India, and no citizen of India resident outside India, shall accept any foreign contribution, or acquire or agree to acquire any currency from a foreign source, on behalf ....

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....ly, to deliver such currency to a political party or to any person referred to in sub-section (1), or both. (3) No person receiving any currency, whether Indian or foreign, from a foreign source on behalf of any person or class of persons, referred to in section 9, shall deliver such currency - (a) to any person other than a person for which it was received, or  (b) ....