The Chit Funds (Amendment) Act, 2001

 

(ACT NO. 10 OF 2001)

9th May, 2001

 

(Received the assent of the President on 9.5.2001. Act published in Gazette of India dated 9.5.2001, Pt. US, 1, Ext., P.l (No. 4))

 

An Act to amend the Chit Funds Act, 1982.

 

Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

 

1. Short title and commencement.--(1) This Act may be called the Chit Funds (Amendment) Act, 2001.

 

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different States.

 

2. Amendment of S.6.-- In S.6 of the Chit Funds Act, 1982 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in sub-s. (3), for the words "thirty per cent", the words "forty per cent" shall be substituted.

 

3. Amendment of S.13.--In S.13 of the principal Act, --

 

(i) in sub-s.(1), for the words "twenty-five thousand rupees", the words "rupees one lakh" shall be substituted;

 

(ii) in sub-s.(2), --

 

(A) in clause (a), for the words "one lakh", the words "six lakhs" shall be substituted;

 

(B) in clause (b), for the words "twenty-five thousand rupees", the words "rupees one lakh" shall be substituted.

 

4. Amendment of S.20.--In S.20 of the principal Act, in sub-s.(1), for clause(a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-

 

"(a) deposit in the name of the Registrar, an amount equal to,-

 

(i) fifty per cent of the chit amount in cash in an approved bank; and

 

(ii) fifty per cent of the chit amount in the form of bank guarantee from an approved bank; or".