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The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
Enactment Date: 10-03-1949
Act Year: 1949
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date: 16-03-1949
Banking and Insurance
Short Title
The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
Long Title
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to banking.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 10-03-1949
Act Year: 1949
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date : 16-03-1949
Section 46(4)
Crime: Contravening any requirement of the Act or of any order, rule or direction made or condition imposed under the Act.
Section 46(4)
Crime: Contravening any terms of, or the obligations under, a reconstruction or amalgamation scheme.
Section 46(3)
Crime: Receiving fresh deposits after being prohibited to do so by the Reserve Bank.
Section 46(2)
Crime: Failing to produce any book, account or other documents or to furnish any statement or information relating to the affairs of the banking company.
Section 46(2)
Crime: Failing to answer any question relating to the business of a banking company which is asked by an officer making an inspection or scrutiny.
Section 46(1)
Crime: Wilfully making a false statement in any return, balance-sheet or other document or in any information required or furnished under the Act.
Section 46(1)
Crime: Wilfully omitting to make a material statement in any return, balance-sheet or other document or in any information required or furnished under the Act.
Section 36AD(1)(c)
Crime: Acting in any manner calculated to undermine the confidence of the depositors in the banking company without any reasonable excuse.
Section 36AD(1)(b)
Crime: Holding any violent demonstration or which demonstration prevents, or is calculated to prevent, the transaction of normal business by the banking company, within the office or place of business of any banking company, without any reasonable excuse.
Section 36AD(1)(a)
Crime: Obstructing any person from lawfully entering or leaving any office or place of business of a banking company or from carrying on any business there without any reasonable excuse.
Section 36AA(5) r/w Section 36AA(4)
Crime: Chairman, director, chief executive officer, other officer or employee continuing to be concerned with, or taking part in the management of any banking company within 5 years after being removed from the office by the order of Reserve Bank.
Section 36AA(5) r/w Section 36AA(1)
Crime: Continuing to act as a chairman, director, chief executive officer, other officer or employee of the banking company after being removed from the office by the order of Reserve Bank.
Section 36AA(5) r/w Proviso to Section 36AA(2)
Crime: Chairman, director, chief executive officer, other officer or employee continuing to be concerned with, or taking part in the management of the banking company after being removed from the office by the order of Reserve Bank.
Section 24(7)
Crime: Banking company failing to keep the minimum prescribed percentage of assets even after a penal interest at the rate of five per cent per annum above the bank rate has been imposed.
The General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act, 1972
Enactment Date: 20-09-1972
Act Year: 1972
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date: 20-09-1972
Banking and Insurance
Short Title
The General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act, 1972
Long Title
An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of shares of Indian insurance companies and undertakings of other existing insurers in order to serve better the needs of the economy by securing the development of general insurance business in the best interests of the community and to ensure that the operation of the economic system does not result in the concentration of wealth to the common detriment, for the regulation and control of such business and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 20-09-1972
Act Year: 1972
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date : 20-09-1972
Section 30.
Crime: Wilfully applying any property of an existing insurer for purposes other than one authorised by this Act.
Section 30 r/w Section 5
Crime: Unlawfully retaining possession of any property of an existing insurer, the undertaking of which is retained unlawfully which has been transferred to and vested in an Indian insurance company.
Section 30 r/w Section 29
Crime: Wilfully withholding or failing to deliver any property, books, documents or other papers which may be in his possession, to an Indian insurance company as is one's prescribed duty to deliver.
The Insurance Act, 1938
Enactment Date: 26-02-1938
Act Year: 1938
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date: 01-07-1939
Banking and Insurance
Short Title
The Insurance Act, 1938
Long Title
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the business of insurance.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 26-02-1938
Act Year: 1938
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date : 01-07-1939
Section 103 r/w Section 3
Crime: Carrying on the business of insurance without obtaining a certificate of registration as required.
The Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956
Enactment Date: 18-06-1956
Act Year: 1956
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date: 01-07-1956
Banking and Insurance
Short Title
The Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956
Long Title
An Act to provide for the nationalisation of life insurance business in India by transferring all such business to a Corporation established for the purpose and to provide for the regulation and control of the business of the Corporation and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 18-06-1956
Act Year: 1956
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date : 01-07-1956
Section 40 r/w Section 13
Crime: Wilfully withholding or failing to deliver to the Corporation any property, books, documents or other papers in one's possession when such property has been transferred to and vested in the Corporation
Section 40
Crime: Unlawfully retaining possession of any property of an insurer which has been transferred to and vested in the Corporation
Section 40
Crime: Wilfully applying any property transferred and vested in the Corporation to purposes other than those expressed in or authorised by the Act.
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act, 1981
Enactment Date: 30-12-1981
Act Year: 1981
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date: 01-05-1982
Banking and Insurance
Short Title
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act, 1981
Long Title
An Act to establish a development bank to be known as the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development for providing and regulating credit and other facilities for the promotion and development of agriculture, small-scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural crafts and other allied economic activities in rural areas with a view to promoting integrated rural development and securing prosperity of rural areas and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 30-12-1981
Act Year: 1981
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date : 01-05-1982
Section 56(1)
Crime: Wilfully making a false statement in any return, balance-sheet, other other document or in any information required or furnished.
Section 56(1)
Crime: Wilfully omitting to make a material statement in any return, balance-sheet, or other document or in any information required or furnished.
The National Housing Bank Act, 1987
Enactment Date: 23-12-1987
Act Year: 1987
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date: 09-07-1988
Banking and Insurance
Short Title
The National Housing Bank Act, 1987
Long Title
An Act to establish a bank to be known as the National Housing Bank to operate as a principal agency to promote housing finance institutions both at local and regional levels and to provide financial and other support to such institutions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 23-12-1987
Act Year: 1987
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date : 09-07-1988
Section 49(3)(b) r/w Section 35
Crime: Any person other than an auditor issuing any prospectus or advertisement without authorisation.
Section 49(3)(b) r/w Section 30
Crime: Any person other than an auditor issuing any prospectus or advertisement in contravention of any order of the Reserve Bank which regulates or prohibits issue of prospectus or advertisement soliciting deposits of money.
Section 49(3)(a) r/w Chapter V
Crime: Any person other than auditor receiving any deposit in contravention of any direction given or order made regarding provisions relating to housing finance institutions.
Section 49(2C) r/w Section 36A(2)
Crime: Failing to comply with any order made by the National Company Law Tribunal for repayment of the deposit which the company has failed to repay in accordance with the terms and conditions of such deposit.
Section 49(2A) r/w Section 29A(1)
Crime: Housing finance institution commencing housing finance as its principal business without obtaining a certificate of registration or without having net owned fund of ten crore rupees or higher.
Section 49(1)
Crime: Wilfully and knowingly making a false statement in any return, balance sheet, or other document or in any information required or furnished by or under or for the purposes of any provision of this Act.
Section 49(1)
Crime: Wilfully omitting to make a material statement in any return, balance-sheet or other document.
The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
Enactment Date: 06-03-1934
Act Year: 1934
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date: 06-03-1934
Banking and Insurance
Short Title
The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
Long Title
An Act to Constitute a Reserve Bank of India.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 06-03-1934
Act Year: 1934
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date : 06-03-1934
Section 58B(6)
Crime: Contravening or defaulting in compliance with any requirement of this Act or any order, regulation or direction made or given or condition imposed.
Section 58B(5A) r/w Section 45S(i), Section 45-I(c)
Crime: Accepting any deposit if one's business includes any activities such as financing, acquisition of shares, stock, bonds, debentures, or securities, or letting or delivering of any goods to a hirer, carrying on any class of insurance business, managing, conducting, or supervising as foreman, agent of chits, or collecting monies in lumpsum and awarding prizes or distributing monies in any other way.
Section 58B(5A) r/w Section 45S(3)
Crime: Issuing or causing to any advertisement in any form for soliciting deposit on and from 1st April 1997 while being an individual or firm or unincorporated association of individuals.
Section 58B(5A) r/w Section 45S(2)
Crime: Failing to repay any deposit taken after it becomes due for repayment or within three years from the date of commencement, i.e. 1st day of April 1997.
Section 58B(5A) r/w Section 45S(1)(ii)
Crime: Accepting any deposit if one's principal business is that of receiving of deposits under any scheme or arrangement or in any other manner or lending in any manner.
Section 58B(5)(b) r/w Section 45, Section 45J
Crime: Any person other than an auditor issuing any prospectus or advertisement which is prohibited or regulated by the Reserve Bank or any order made by the Reserve Bank.
Section 58B(5)(aa)
Crime: Any person other than an auditor failing to comply with any direction or order made by the Reserve Bank relating to non-banking institutions receiving deposits and financial institutions.
Section 58B(5)(a)
Crime: Any person other than an auditor receiving any deposit without authorisation or in contravention of any direction or order.
Section 58B(4AAA)
Crime: Failing to comply with any order made by the Company Law Board for the repayment of a deposit accepted by a non-banking financial company.
Section 58B(4AA)
Crime: Auditor failing to comply with any direction or order made by the Reserve Bank.
Section 58B(4A) r/w Section 45-IA(1)
Crime: Non-banking financial company commencing or carrying on the business of a non-banking financial institution without obtaining a certificate of registration.
Section 58B(4A) r/w Section 45-IA(1)
Crime: Non-banking financial company commencing or carrying on the business of a non-banking financial institution without having net owned fund of twenty-five lakh rupees, not exceeding one hundred crore rupees, as notified by the Reserve Bank.
Section 58B(4) r/w Section 45E
Crime: Disclosing any credit information contained in any statement submitted by a banking company whose disclosure is prohibited.
Section 58B(3) r/w Section 31
Crime: Drawing, accepting, making or issuing any bill of exchange, hundi, promissory note or engagement for the payment of money payable to bearer on demand.
Section 58B(3) r/w Section 31
Crime: Borrowing, owing, or taking up any sum or sums of money on bills, hundis, or promissory notes payable to bearer on demand of any person who has issued or made such bill, hundi, note.
Section 58B(2)
Crime: Failing to produce any book, account or other document or furnishing any statement, information or particulars which are one's duty to produce or furnish under this Act, or any order, regulation or direction.
Section 58B(2)
Crime: Failing to answer any question put to one in pursuance of the provisions of this Act or any order, regulation or direction made under this Act.
Section 58B(1)
Crime: Wilfully making a false statement in any application, declaration, return, statement, information or particulars made, required or furnished by or under or for the purposes of any provisions of the Act.
Section 58B(1)
Crime: Wilfully making a false statement in any order, regulation or direction made or given under the Act.
Section 58B(1)
Crime: Wilfully making a false statement in any prospectus or advertisement issued for or in connection with the invitation by any person, of deposits of money from the public.
Section 58B(1)
Crime: Wilfully omitting to make a material statement in any application, declaration, return, statement, information or particulars made, required or furnished by or under or for the purposes of any provisions of the Act.
Section 58B(1)
Crime: Wilfully omitting to make a material statement in any prospectus or advertisement issued for or in connection with the invitation by any person, of deposits of money from the public.
Section 58B(1)
Crime: Wilfully omitting to make a material statement in any order, regulation or direction made or given under the Act.
Section 42(3A)(b)
Crime: Director and officer of the scheduled bank knowingly and wilfully accepting fresh deposits in contravention of a prohibition by the Reserve Bank.
Section 42(3A)(a)
Crime: Director, manager or secretary of the scheduled bank knowingly and wilfully being a party to the default of the scheduled bank, where the average daily balance held at the Reserve Bank is below the prescribed minimum for multiple fortnights.
The Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Act, 2017
Enactment Date: 27-02-2017
Act Year: 2017
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Economic Affairs
Enforcement Date: 31-12-2016
Banking and Insurance
Short Title
The Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Act, 2017
Long Title
An Act to provide in the public interest for the cessation of liabilities on the specified bank notes and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 27-02-2017
Act Year: 2017
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Economic Affairs
Enforcement Date : 31-12-2016
Section 7 r/w Section 5
Crime: Knowingly and voluntarily holding, transferring or receiving any specified bank note on and from the appointed day and after the expiry of the grace period, barring exceptions.
Section 6 r/w Section 4(1)
Crime: Knowingly and wilfully making any false declaration or statement to the Reserve Bank of India when holding demonitised bank notes on or before 8th November, 2016, or omitting to make a material statement.
The State Bank of Sikkim (Acquisition of Shares) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1982
Enactment Date: 06-11-1982
Act Year: 1982
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date: 06-11-1982
Banking and Insurance
Short Title
The State Bank of Sikkim (Acquisition of Shares) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1982
Long Title
An Act to provide, in the public interest, for the acquisition of certain shares of the State Bank of Sikkim for the purpose of better consolidation and extension of banking facilities in the State of Sikkim and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Basic Details
Enactment Date: 06-11-1982
Act Year: 1982
Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Department: Department of Financial Services
Enforcement Date : 06-11-1982
Section 14(c)
Crime: Wrongfully removing or destroying any property forming part of any undertaking of the Sikkim Bank.
Section 14(c)
Crime: Knowingly preferring any false or grossly inaccurate claim under this Act.
Section 14(b)
Crime: Wrongfully obtaining possession of, or retaining, any property forming part of any undertaking of the Sikkim Bank.
Section 14(b)
Crime: Wilfully withholding or failing to furnish any document relating to any undertaking of the Sikkim Bank, to the Central or the State Government or the co-operative bank, or any person or body specified by them.
Section 14(b)
Crime: Failing to deliver any assets, books of account, registers or other documents relating to the undertakings of the Sikkim Bank, to the Central or the State Government or the co-operative bank, or any person or body specified by them.
Section 14(a)
Crime: Withholding any property forming part of the undertakings of the Sikkim bank from the Central or the State Government or the co-operative bank.