Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act : Information to competent

Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act,1976

Act No : 13

Section : Information to competent authority.

16.Information to competent authority. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, the competent authority shall have power to require any officer or authority of the Central Government or a State Government or a local authority to furnishing information in relation to such persons, points or matters as in the opinion of the competent authority will be useful for, or relevant to, the purposes of this Act. (2)Any officer of the Income-tax Department, the Customs Depart- ment or the Central Excise Department or any officer of enforcement appointed under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 (46 of 1973), may furnish --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Ins. by Act 55 of 1980, s.2 (w.e.f.1-7-1981). --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1112 suo motu any information available with him to the competent authority if in the opinion of the officer such information will be useful to the competent authority for the purposes of this Act.