law: Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010
  Chapter III:
  
  Registration
  11. Registration of
  
  certain persons with Central Government. -
  1.  
  
    Save
  
  as otherwise provided in this Act, no person having a definite cultural,
  
  economic, educational, religious or social programme shall accept foreign
  
  contribution unless such person obtains a certificate of registration from the
  
  Central Government:
  Provided that any association registered with
  
  the Central Government under section 6 or granted prior permission under that
  
  section of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976, as it stood
  
  immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been
  
  registered or granted prior permission, as the case may be, under this Act and
  
  such registration shall be valid for a period of five years from the date on
  
  which this section comes into force.
  1.  
  
  
  2.  Every
  
  person referred to in sub-section (1) may, if it is not registered with the
  
  Central Government under that sub-section, accept any foreign contribution only
  
  after obtaining the prior permission of the Central Government and such prior
  
  permission shall be valid for the specific purpose for which it is obtained and
  
  from the specific source:
  Provided that if the person referred to in
  
  sub-sections (1) and (2) has been found guilty of violation of any of the
  
  provisions of this Act or the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976, the
  
  unutilised or unreceived amount of foreign contribution shall not be utilised
  
  or received, as the case may be, without the prior approval of the Central
  
  Government.
  1.  
  
  
  2.  
  
  
  3.  Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in this Act, the Central Government may, by notification in
  
  the Official Gazette, specify--
   
  
   i.  
  
    the
  
  person or class of persons who shall obtain its prior permission before
  
  accepting the foreign contribution; or
   
  
   ii.  
  
    the
  
  area or areas in which the foreign contribution shall be accepted and utilised
  
  with the prior permission of the Central Government; or
   
  
   iii.  
  
    the
  
  purpose or purposes for which the foreign contribution shall be utilized with
  
  the prior permission of the Central Government; or
   
  
   iv.  
  
    the
  
  source or sources from which the foreign contribution shall be accepted with
  
  the prior permission of the Central Government.