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Foreign Exchange Management (Mode of Payment and Reporting of Non-Debt Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations, 2024
Reserve Bank of India No. FEMA. 395(2) /2024-RB April 23, 2024
Foreign Exchange Management (Mode of Payment and Reporting of Non-Debt Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations, 2024
In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 47 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999) and consequent to the Foreign Exchange Management (Non-Debt Instrument) Rules, 2019, the Reserve Bank of India hereby makes the following amendments to the Foreign Exchange Management (Mode of Payment and Reporting of Non-Debt Instruments) Regulations, 2019 [Notification No. FEMA.395/2019-RB dated October 17, 2019] (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Principal Regulations’) namely:- 1. Short Title & Commencement (i) These Regulations may be called the Foreign Exchange Management (Mode of Payment and Reporting of Non-Debt Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations, 2024. (ii) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. Amendment to Regulation 3.1 of the Principal Regulations In Regulation 3.1 of the Principal Regulations, after Sl no. IX, the following shall be inserted namely: -
3. Amendment to Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations In sub-regulation (8) of Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations, the existing provision shall be substituted by the following, namely: “LEC(FII): (i) The Authorised Dealer Category I banks shall report to the Reserve Bank in Form LEC (FII) the purchase / transfer of equity instruments by FPIs on the stock exchanges in India. (ii) The Investee Indian company through an Authorised Dealer Category I bank shall report to the Reserve Bank in Form LEC (FII) the purchase/subscription of equity shares (where such purchase / subscription is classified as Foreign Portfolio Investment under the rules) by permissible holder, other than transfers between permissible holders, on an International Exchange.” (Latha Radhakrishnan)
Foot Note: The Principal Regulations were published in the Official Gazette of Government of India vide G.S.R.No.795(E) dated 17.10.2019 in Part II, Section 3, sub-Section (i) and subsequently amended, vide: 1. Notification no. FEMA 395(1)/2020-RB [Foreign Exchange Management (Mode of Payment and Reporting of Non-Debt Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations, 2020] dated June 15, 2020, published in the Gazette of India [Extraordinary, Part III–Section 4], vide Gazette ID CG-MH-E-19062020-220016 dated 18.06.2020. |