Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Should FEMA be amended?

....In a parallel development, no sooner had the DIPP Press Notes 4 to 8 been released, a Delhi Lawyer lodged a PIL in the Indian Supreme Court challenging these Press Notes as being ultra vires in overreaching the RBI, as the relevant provisions of ( FEMA) had not been amended. The court was apprised by the attorney general that on the next working day itself, RBI had issued a notification pursuant to DIPP’s action, permitting deletion of the item of multibrand retail from Schedule ‘A’ of FEMA and providing for amendments to provide for the sectoral holding......

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