law: Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976
  11. Application to be made in prescribed form
  
  for obtaining prior permission to accept foreign contribution or hospitality
  (1) Every individual, association, organization
  
  or other person, who is required by or under this Act to obtain the prior
  
  permission of the Central Government to accept any foreign contribution, or
  
  foreign hospitality, shall before the acceptance of any such contribution or
  
  hospitality, make an application for such permission to the Central Government
  
  in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed.
  (2) If an application referred to in
  
  sub-section (1) is not disposed of within ninety days from the date of receipt
  
  of such application, the permission prayed for in such application shall, on
  
  the expiry of the said period of ninety days, be deemed to have been granted by
  
  the Central Government:
  PROVIDED that, where in relation to an
  
  application, the Central Government has informed the applicant the special
  
  difficulties by reason of which his application cannot be disposed of within
  
  the said period of ninety days, such application shall not, until the expiry of
  
  a further period of thirty days, be deemed to have been granted by the Central
  
  Government.