law: The Income-Tax Act, 1961
  1[Chapter XXB
  Requirement as to 2[Mode of Acceptance, Payment or Repayment] in Certain Cases to Counteract Evasion of Tax
  3[269SS.Mode of taking or accepting certain loans, deposits and specified sum.-
  No person shall take or accept from any other person (herein referred to as the depositor), any loan or deposit or any specified sum, otherwise than by an account payee cheque or account payee bank draft or use of electronic clearing system through a bank account, if,-
  (a) the amount of such loan or deposit or specified sum or the aggregate amount of such loan, deposit and specified sum; or
  (b) on the date of taking or accepting such loan or deposit or specified sum, any loan or deposit or specified sum taken or accepted earlier by such person from the depositor is remaining unpaid (whether repayment has fallen due or not), the amount or the aggregate amount remaining unpaid; or
  (c) the amount or the aggregate amount referred to in clause (a) together with the amount or the aggregate amount referred to in clause (b), is twenty thousand rupees or more:
  Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any loan or deposit or specified sum taken or accepted from, or any loan or deposit or specified sum taken or accepted by,-
  (a) the Government;
  (b) any banking company, post office savings bank or co-operative bank;
  (c) any corporation established by a Central, State or Provincial Act;
  (d) any Government company as defined in clause (45) of section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013);
  (e) such other institution, association or body or class of institutions, associations or bodies which the Central Government may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, notify in this behalf in the Official Gazette:
  Provided further that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any loan or deposit or specified sum, where the person from whom the loan or deposit or specified sum is taken or accepted and the person by whom the loan or deposit or specified sum is taken or accepted, are both having agricultural income and neither of them has any income chargeable to tax under this Act.
  Explanation.-For the purposes of this section,-
  (i) "banking company" means a company to which the provisions of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949) applies and includes any bank or banking institution referred to in section 51 of that Act;
  (ii) "co-operative bank" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in Part V of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949);
  (iii) "loan or deposit" means loan or deposit of money;
  (iv) "specified sum" means any sum of money receivable, whether as advance or otherwise, in relation to transfer of an immovable property, whether or not the transfer takes place.]
  1. Ins. by Act 38 of 1981, s. 2 (w.e.f. 11-7-1981).
  2. Subs. by Act 21 of 1984, s. 28, for "MODE OF REPAYMENT" (w.e.f. 1-4-1984).
  3. Subs. by Act 20 of 2015, s. 68, for section 269SS (w.e.f. 1-6-2015).
  1[269ST. Mode of undertaking transactions.-
  No person shall receive an amount of two lakh rupees or more-
  (a) in aggregate from a person in a day; or
  (b) in respect of a single transaction; or
  (c) in respect of transactions relating to one event or occasion from a person, otherwise than by an account payee cheque or an account payee bank draft or use of electronic clearing system through a bank account:
  Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to-
  (i) any receipt by-
  (a) Government;
  (b) any banking company, post office savings bank or co-operative bank;
  (ii) transactions of the nature referred to in section 269SS;
  (iii) such other persons or class of persons or receipts, which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify.
  Explanation.-For the purposes of this section,-
  (a) "banking company" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (i) of the Explanation to section 269SS;
  (b) "co-operative bank" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (ii) of the Explanation to section 269SS.]
  1. Ins. by Act 7 of 2017, s. 84 (w.e.f. 1-4-2017).
  2[269T.Mode of repayment of certain loans or deposits.-
  No branch of a banking company or a co-operative bank and no other company or co-operative society and no firm or other person shall repay any loan or deposit made with it 3[or any specified advance received by it] otherwise than by an account payee cheque or account payee bank draft drawn in the name of the person who has made the loan or deposit 3[or paid the specified advance,] 4[or by use of electronic clearing system through a bank account] if-
  (a) the amount of the loan or deposit 3[or specified advance] together with the interest, if any, payable thereon, or
  (b) the aggregate amount of the loans or deposits held by such person with the branch of the banking company or co-operative bank or, as the case may be, the other company or co-operative society or the firm, or other person either in his own name or jointly with any other person on the date of such repayment together with the interest, if any, payable on such loans or deposits, 3[or]
  3[(c) the aggregate amount of the specified advances received by such person either in his own name or jointly with any other person on the date of such repayment together with the interest, if any, payable on such specified advances,] is twenty thousand rupees or more:
  Provided that where the repayment is by a branch of a banking company or co-operative bank, such repayment may also be made by crediting the amount of such loan or deposit to the savings bank account or the current account (if any) with such branch of the person to whom such loan or deposit has to be repaid:
  1[Provided further that nothing contained in this section shall apply to repayment of any loan or deposit 2[or specified advance] taken or accepted from-
  (i) Government;
  (ii) any banking company, post office savings bank or co-operative bank;
  (iii) any corporation established by a Central, State or Provincial Act;
  (iv) any Government companyas defined in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956);
  (v) such other institution, association or body or class of institutions, associations or bodies which the Central Government may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, notify in this behalf in the Official Gazette.]
  Explanation.-For the purposes of this section,-
  (i) "banking company" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (i) of the Explanation to section 269SS;
  (ii) "co-operative bank" shall have the meaning assigned to it in Part V of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949);
  (iii) "loan or deposit" means any loan or deposit of money which is repayable after notice or repayable after a period and, in the case of a person other than a company, includes loan or deposit of any nature;]]
  2[(iv) "specified advance" means any sum of money in the nature of advance, by whatever name called, in relation to transfer of an immovable property, whether or not the transfer takes place.]
  2. Subs. by Act 20 of 2002, s. 99, for section 269T (w.e.f. 1-6-2002).
  3. Ins. by Act 20 of 2015, s. 69 (w.e.f. 1-6-2015).
  4. Ins. by Act 25 of 2014, s. 69 (w.e.f. 1-4-2015).
  1. Ins. by Act 32 of 2003, s. 94 (w.e.f. 1-6-2002).
  2. Ins. by Act 20 of 2015, s. 69 (w.e.f. 1-6-2015).
  3[269TT.Mode of repayment of Special Bearer Bonds, 1991.-
  Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the amount payable on redemption of Special Bearer Bonds, 1991, shall be paid only by an account payee cheque or account payee bank draft drawn in the name of the person to whom such payment is to be made.]
  3. Ins. by Act 38 of 1981, s. 3 (w.e.f. 19-9-1981).