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Home Bare Acts Phrase: politicalIncome Tax Act, 1961 Section 13A
Title: Special Provision Relating to Incomes of Political Parties
State: Central
Year: 1961
.....if the treasurer of such political party or any other person authorised by that political party in this behalf fails to submit a report under sub-section (3) of section 29C of the Representation of People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951) for a financial year, no exemption under this section shall be available for that political party for such financial year.] 4[Explanation: For the purposes of this section, political party means a political party registered under section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951).] _____________________ 1. Inserted by the Finance Act, 2003, with retrospective effect from 1st April, 1979. 2. Substituted for ten thousand rupees by the Election and other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2003, with effect from 11th September, 2003. 3. Inserted by the Election and other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2003, with effect from 11th September, 2003. 4. Substituted by the Election and other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2003, with effect from 11th September, 2003. Prior to substitution, the Explanation, stood as under: Explanation: For the purposes of this section, political party means an association or body of individual citizens.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCompanies Act, 2013, Section 182
Title: Prohibitions and Restrictions Regarding Political Contributions
State: Central
Year: 2013
.....relates, giving particulars of the total amount contributed and the name of the party to which such amount has been contributed. (4) If a company makes any contribution in contravention of the provisions of this section, the company shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five times the amount so contributed and every officer of the company who is in default shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months and with fine which may extend to five times the amount so contributed. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, "political party" means a political party registered under section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRepresentation of the People Act, 1951 Section 29C
Title: Declaration of Donation Received by the Political Parties
State: Central
Year: 1951
.....rupees received by such political party from companies other than Government companies in that financial year. (2) The report under sub-section (1)shall be in such form as may be prescribed. (3) The report for a financial year under sub-section (1) shall be submitted by the treasurer of a political party or any other person authorised by the political party in this behalf before the due date for furnishing a return of its income of that financial year under section 139 of the Income-tax Act, 1961(43 of 1961) to the Election Commission. (4) Where the treasurer of any political party or any other person authorised by the political party in this behalf fails to submit a report under sub-section (3), then, notwithstanding anything contained in the Income-tax Act, 1961(43 of 1961), such political party shall not be entitled to any tax relief under that Act.]
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRepresentation of the People Act, 1951 Section 52
Title: Death of a Candidate of a Recognised Political Party Before Poll
State: Central
Year: 1951
.....candidate and a report of his death is received before the commencement of the poll, the returning officer shall, upon being satisfied about the fact of the death of the candidate, by order, announce an adjournment of the poll to a date to be notified later and report the fact to the Election Commission and also to the appropriate authority: Provided that no order for adjourning a poll should be made in a case referred to in clause (a) except after the scrutiny of all the nominations including the nomination of the deceased candidate. (2) The Election Commission shall, on the receipt of a report from the returning officer under sub-section (1), call upon the recognised political party, whose candidate has died, to nominate another candidate for the said poll within seven days of issue of such notice to such recognised political party and the provisions of sections 30 to 3 7 shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to such nomination as they would apply to other nominations: Provided that no person who has given a notice of withdrawal of his candidature under sub-section (1) of section 37 before the adjournment of the poll shall be ineligible for being nominated as a.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRepresentation of the People Act, 1951 Section 29A
Title: Registration with the Election Commission of Associations and Bodies as Political Parties
State: Central
Year: 1951
.....and integrity of India. (6) The Commission may call for such other particulars as it may deem fit from the association or body. (7) After considering all the particulars as aforesaid in its possession and any other necessary and relevant factors and after giving the representatives of the association or body reasonable opportunity of being heard, the Commission shall decide either to register the association or body as a political party for the purposes of this Part, or not so to register it; and the Commission shall communicate its decision to the association or body: Provided that no association or body shall be registered as a political party under this sub-section unless the memorandum or rules and regulations of such association or body conform to the provisions of sub-section (5). (8) The decision of the Commission shall be final. (9) After an association or body has been registered as a political party as aforesaid, any change in its name, head office, office-bearers, address or in any other material matters shall be communicated to the Commission without delay.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionForeign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 Section 5
Title: Organisation of a Political Nature Not to Accept Foreign Contribution Except with the Prior Permission of the Central Government
State: Central
Year: 1976
.....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.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRepresentation of the People Act, 1951 Section 29B
Title: Political Parties Entitled to Accept Contribution
State: Central
Year: 1951
.....as defined in section 3; (b) "Government company" means a company within the meaning of section 617; and (c) "contribution" has the meaning assigned to it under section 293A, of the Companies Act, 1956(1 of 1956) and includes any donation or subscription offered by any person to a political party; and (d) "person" has the meaning assigned to it under clause (31) of section 2 of the Income-tax Act, 1961(43 of 1961), but does not include Government company, local authority and every artificial juridical person wholly or partially funded by the Government.] ______________________ 1. Inserted by Election and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2003 (Act No. 46 of 2003)
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIncome Tax Act, 1961 Section 80GGC
Title: Deduction in Respect of Contributions Given by Any Person to Political Parties
State: Central
Year: 1961
1[In computing the total income of an assessee, being any person, except local authority and every artificial juridical person wholly or partly funded by the Government, there shall be deducted any amount of contribution made by him, in the previous year, 2[to a political party or an electoral trust]. Explanation : For the purposes of sections 80GGB and 80GGC, political party means a political party registered under section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951).] ________________________________ 1. Inserted by the Election and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2003, with effect from 11th September, 2003. 2. Substituted by the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2009, with effect from 1st April, 2010 for the words : - "to a political party]"
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTrade Unions Act, 1926 Section 16
Title: Constitution of a Separate Fund for Political Purposes
State: Central
Year: 1926
.....a member who does not contribute to the said fund shall not be excluded from any benefits of the Trade Union, or placed in any respect either directly or indirectly under any disability or at any disadvantage as compared with other members of the Trade Union (except in relation to the control or management of the said fund) by reason of his not contributing to the said fund; and contribution to the said fund shall not be made a condition for admission to the Trade Union. ______________________ 1. The words and figures "the Government of India Act, or the Government of India Act, 1935, or" omitted by Act 42 of 1960, section 8. 2. Inserted by the A.O. 1950. 3. Inserted by Act 51 of 1970, section 2 and Schedule.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionConstitution of India Article 361B
Title: Disqualification for Appointment on Remunerative Political Post
State: Central
Year: 1950
....."remunerative political post" means any office- (i) Under the Government of India or the Government of a State where the salary or remuneration for such office is paid out of the public revenue of the Government of India or the Government of the State, as the case may be; or (ii) Under a body, whether incorporated or not, which is wholly or partially owned by the Government of India or the Government of a State and the salary or remuneration for such office is paid by such body, except where such salary or remuneration paid is compensatory in nature.] ________________________ 1. Inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act 2003, section 4 (w.e.f. 1-1-2004).
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