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(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) Judge, Government servant or employee o f any corporation or any other body leontrolled or owned by the Government; ' (4 member of any Legislature; [E) political'party or oEce-tiearer thereof; V) organisation of a political nature as may be specifd under sub-section (I) of section 5 by the Central Government; (g) ass~ciatip~.or company engaged in the production or broadcast of audio news or audio visual news or current affairs programmes through my electronic mode, or any o h r electronic form as defined in claw (r) of sub-section ( I ) of section 2 of: the Information Technology Act, 2000 or any other mode of mass communicatian; (h) correspondent or columnist, cartoonist, editor, owner of the association or company refem to in clause 0. '. Exp1unafion.-In clause (c) and sect ion 6, the expression umrporation" means a corporation owned or controlled by the Government 4 includes a Government company ss defined in section 6 I7 of the Companies Act, 1 956. (2) (a) No pwsan, resident in India, and no citizen of lndi resident omide India, shall accept any foreign contribution, or acquire or to acquire my currency from a foreign source, on behalf of any political pariy, or any person referred to in sub-section ( I ) , pr both. (b) NO person, resident in India, shall deliver any currency, whether Indian or foreign, which ha8 been accepted fromany foreign source, to any person if he know or has masonable muse to believe that such other person intends, or is likely, to deliver such currency m any political party or any person referred to in sub-section ( I ) , or both, (c)No citizen of Imlia resident outside India shall deliver any currency, w h t k r Indim or foreign, which has been accepted from any foreign source, to- . (4 any political party or any person referred to in sub-section . ( I ) , or both; or (ii) any other person, if he knows or has reasonable muse to beIieve that such' other person intmds,.or is likely, to deliver such currency to a po1itical party or to my person referred to in sub-section (J), or both. Prohibition to accept foreign conbibution. 6 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY PART II- (3) No person receiving any currency, w h d w lndian or foreign, from a foreign source on behalf of any person or class of persans, *farred to in section 9, shall delivex such currency- (a) to any person other than n penon for which it was m i v e d , or (b) to any other person, if he knows or hag ~ e ~ ~ ~ n a b l e cause to believe hat such 0 t h pmon intends, or is likely, to deliver such currency to a penan othw tban tbe person for which such cunency was received. Persons to