Fugitive Economic Offenders Act

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THE FUGITIVE ECONOMIC OFFENDERS ACT, 2018 [Act No. 17 of 2018] [31st July, 2018] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for measures to deter fugitive economic offenders from evading the process of law in India by staying outside the jurisdiction of Indian courts, to preserve the sanctity of the rule of law in India and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- (1) This Act may be called the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 21st day of April, 2018. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,–– (a) “Administrator” means an Administrator appointed under sub-section (1) of section 15; (b) “benami property” and “benami transaction” shall have the same meanings as assigned to them under clauses (8) and (9) respectively of section 2 of the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988 (45 of 1988); (c) “contracting State” means any country or place outside India in respect of which arrangements have been made by the Central Government with the Government of such country through a t