Candidate for election etc. not to accept foreign contribution-

(1)  No foreign contribution shall be accepted by any —

(a)  candidate for election,

(b)  correspondent, columnist, cartoonist, editor, owner, printer or publisher of a registered newspaper,

(c)  [4][Judge], Government servant or employee of any corporation,

(d)  member of any legislature,

(e) political party or office-bearer thereof.

Explanation- In clause (c) and in section 9, “corporation” means a corporation owned or controlled by government and includes a Government company as defined in Section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956).

(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 of any political party, or any person referred to in sub-section (1), or both.

        (b) No person, resident in India, shall deliver any currency, whether Indian or foreign, which has been accepted from any foreign source, to any person if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that such other person intends, or is likely, to deliver such currency to any political party or any person referred to in sub- section (1), or both.

(c) No citizen  of India, resident outside India shall deliver any currency, whether Indian or foreign which has been accepted from any foreign source, to-

(i) any political party or any person referred to in sub-section  (1), or both, or

(ii) any other person, if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that such other person intends, or is likely, 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 association, referred to in sub-section (1) of Section 6, shall deliver such currency-

(i)  to any association or organisation other than the association for which it was received, or

(ii)  to any other person, if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that such other person intends, or is likely, to deliver such currency to an association other than the association for which such currency was received.

Organisation of a Political nature not to accept foreign contribution except with the prior permission of the Central Government

(1) No organisation of a political nature, not being a political party, shall, accept any foreign contribution except with the prior permission of the Central Government.

Explanation- For the purposes of this section, “organisation of a political nature, not being a political party” means such organisation as the central Government may, having regard to the activities of the organisation or the ideology propagated by the organisation or the programme of the organisation or the association of the organisation with the activities of any political party, by an order published in the official Gazette, specify in this behalf.

(2)        (a) Except with the prior permission of the Central Government, 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 foreign currency, on behalf of an organisation referred to in sub-section(1).

(b) Except with the prior permission of the Central Government, no person, resident in India, shall deliver any foreign currency to any person if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that such other person intends, or is likely to deliver such currency to an organisation referred to in sub-section (1).

(c) Except with the prior  approval of the Central Government, no citizen of India, resident outside India, shall deliver any currency, whether Indian or foreign, which has been accepted from any foreign source, to-

(i)  any organisation referred to in sub-section(1), or

(ii)  any person, if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that such person intends, or is likely, to deliver such currency to an organisation referred to in sub-section(1).