Exemption from realisation and repatriation in certain cases

Section 9 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 deals with exemption from realisation and repatriation in certain cases. The provisions of sections 4 and 8 shall not apply to the following, namely:-- (a) possession of foreign currency or foreign coins by any person up to such limit as the Reserve Bank may specify; The Act came into force on 01 Jun 2000.

The provisions of sections 4 and 8 shall not apply to the following, namely:--

(a) possession of foreign currency or foreign coins by any person up to such limit as the Reserve Bank may specify;

(b) foreign currency account held or operated by such person or class of persons and the limit up to which the Reserve Bank may specify;

(c) foreign exchange acquired or received before the 8th day of July, 1947 or any income arising or accruing thereon which is held outside India by any person in pursuance of a general or special permission granted by the Reserve Bank;

(d) foreign exchange held by a person resident in India up to such limit as the Reserve Bank may specify, if such foreign exchange was acquired by way of gift or inheritance from a person referred to in clause (c), including any income arising therefrom;

(e) foreign exchange acquired from employment, business, trade, vocation, services, honorarium, gifts, inheritance or any other legitimate means up to such limit as the Reserve Bank may specify; and

(f) such other receipts in foreign exchange as the Reserve Bank may specify.

Section 9, The Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (Act 42 of 1999).