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International Financial Services Centres Authority (Global In-House Centres) Regulations, 2025.
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....a financial service for developing International Financial Services Centres (IFSCs) as global hub for delivery of high-value financial and related services, generating employment opportunities, and strengthening India's integration within the global value chain of financial services; (2) To bring back the India centric financial services and transactions that are currently carried out in offshore financial centres to International Financial Service Centre by offering world class business and regulatory environment. 3. Definitions (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms defined herein shall bear the meanings assigned to them below, and their cognate expressions and variations shall be construed accordingly: - (a) "Act" means the International Financial Services Centres Authority Act, 2019 (50 of 2019); (b) "Authority" means the International Financial Services Centres Authority established under sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Act; (c) "Global-In-House Centre (GIC)" means a service provided by a GIC Unit for delivering services relating to financial products and financial services to a Financial I....
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.... shall also include financial institutions in an International Financial Service Centre; (i) "Resident" means a 'person resident in India' as defined under the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999); (j) "Single Window IT Systems (SWIT)" refers to an online platform designed, inter-alia, to facilitate the processing of applications submitted by the applicants for obtaining Certificate of Registration under these regulations; (k) "Specified Foreign Currency" means the currencies specified in the First Schedule of the International Financial Services Centres Authority (Banking) Regulations, 2020, as amended from time to time. (2) Words and expressions used and not defined in these regulations but defined in the Act or Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to the Act, or the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), or the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 (6 of 2009), or any rules or regulations made thereunder shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in those Acts, rules, regulations or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereto, as the case may be. CHAPTER-II REGISTRATION OF A GLOBAL IN-HOUSE CENTRE UNIT ....
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....ch the application shall be liable to be rejected: Provided that no application shall be rejected without giving the applicant a reasonable opportunity of being heard by way of written submissions. 7. Grant of Registration (1) On consideration of the application, the Authority may grant in-principle approval to the applicant, subject to such conditions as deemed fit. (2) On receipt of in-principle approval, the applicant shall, within a period of one hundred eighty (180) days, unless extended by the Authority, take necessary steps to comply with these regulations and conditions of the in-principle approval. (3) An application seeking extension beyond one hundred eighty (180) days shall be filed in such form and manner as may be specified by the Authority. (4) On being satisfied that the applicant has fulfilled the conditions of the in- principle approval, the Authority may grant a certificate of registration, subject to such conditions as it deemed fit. (5) The certificate of registration granted under these regulations shall remain valid unless suspended or cancelled by the Authority or voluntarily surrendered by the GIC Uni....
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.... (ii). such a person has not incurred any of the following disqualifications: (a) the person has been convicted by a court of law for any offence involving moral turpitude or any economic offence or any offence, under the Act or Acts mentioned in the First Schedule of the Act, in last five (5) years; (b) charge sheet has been filed against such person by any Indian or foreign enforcement agency in matters concerning economic offences and is pending; (c) charges have been framed by a court of law or an equivalent institution in matters concerning economic offences; (d) a recovery proceeding has been initiated against the person by a statutory body or financial regulatory authority and is pending; (e) an order has been passed against the person for malfeasance; (f) the person has been declared an undischarged insolvent; (g) An order, restraining, prohibiting or debarring the person from accessing, providing or dealing in financial product (s) or financial service (s), has been passed by any regulatory authority, in any matter concerning financial services market and such order is in force; (h) any other ord....
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.... Authority. (2) Any financial reporting by the GIC Unit to the Authority shall be in US Dollar, unless otherwise specified by the Authority. 13. Power to Relax Strict Enforcement of the Regulations (1) The Authority, for reasons to be recorded in writing, may in the interest of the development of the financial services market in the International Financial Service Centre, relax the strict enforcement of any requirements of these regulations. (2) For seeking relaxation under sub-regulation (1), an application giving details and the grounds on which such relaxation has been sought, shall be filed with the Authority along with a non-refundable fee as may be specified by the Authority. (3) The application made under sub-regulation (2), complete in all respects, shall be processed within thirty (30) days from the date of receipt of the application, or receipt of the responses to clarifications sought by the Authority, if any. (4) The Authority shall dispose of the application received under sub-regulation (2), by recording the reasons in writing for acceptance or refusal of relaxations sought by the applicant. 14. Power to Remove Diffic....