law: Emigration Act, 1983
  10. No person to functions as recruiting agent
  
  without a valid certificate.-
  Save as otherwise provided in this Act, nor
  
  recruiting agent shall, after the commencement of this Act, commence or carry
  
  on the business of recruitment except under and in accordance with a
  
  certificates issued in that behalf by the registering authority.
  Provided that a person carrying on the business
  
  of recruiting agent immediately before the commencement of this Act may
  
  continue to carry on such business without such a certificate for a period of
  
  one month from such commencement, and if he has made an application for such
  
  certificate under this Act within the said period of one months and such
  
  application is in the prescribed form and contains the prescribed particulars,
  
  till the disposal of such application by the registering authority.