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". 17-. ·· Page 87, par a 4, iri second 1 in e for -''1 as t day of ~he we' · ~ . II]_ as t; day 0 f -4-,he first We ~k II • Eew Delhi· ··-January ---~-.3, · 1976 -- •. CONTENTS PAGES r. Composition of the Joint Committee , f i-ii .a. Report of the Joint Committee iil-x: 3· Minutes of Dissent •. xi-xlx 4· Bill as reported by the Joint Committee · r-r6 APPI?l'ii>ICES : (I) Motion in the Rajya Sabha for reference of the Bill to a Joint Committee 17 em Motion in the Lok Sabha • tS-19 (III) Questionnaire zo-21 (IV) List of individuals/associations etc. from whom memoranda. suggestions etc. were reeeived by the Joint Committee M List of witnesses who tendered evidence before the Joint Committee 24-31 (VI) Minutes of the ·~eetings ofthe Joint Committee 31.-102 604 RS-1. COMPOSITION OF THE JOINT COMMI'ITEE ON TH~ FOitEIGN CONTRIBUTION (REGULAT19N) BILL, 1973 Shri Manubhai Shah-Chairman Rajya Sabha 2. Shri D. D. Puri . 3. Shri Chakrapani Shukla 4. Shri Gulabra~ Patil 5. Shri Kali Mukherjee 6. Shri Harsh Deo Malaviya 7. Shri Ganesh La! Mall 8. Shrimati Pratibha ~gh 9. Shri Kasim Ali Abid 10. Shri Emonsing M. Sangma 11. Shri Shamlal Gupta 12. Shri Omprakash Tyagi *13. Shri Kalyan Roy 14. Shri S. S. Mariswamy 15. Shri Sitaram Singh 16. Shri D. Y.,. Pawar 17. Shri Abu Abraham ••ts. Shri Vishwanatha Menon 19. Shri ·Bhupinder Singh • • *20. Shri Om Mehta Lok Sabha 21. Shri R. Balakrishn~ Pillai 22. Shrimati Mukul Banerji 23. Sbp Bashweshwar Nath Bhargava 24. Shri Chapalendu Bhattacharyyia 25. Shri J yotirmoy Bosu Ceased to be member of the Committee .consequent on retirement from the membership of the Rajya Sabha on the 9th July, 1975. Re. appointed on the 30th July, 1975, on being. re-elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha. • • Appointed on 11-5-1974 vice Shri K. P. Sub!"amania Menon retired from the membership of the Rajya Sabh:a on 2-4-1974. • • • Appointed on 9-12-1974 vice Shri Ram Niwas Mirdha resigned on 22-11-1974. i1 @26. Shri Ramachandran Kadannappalli 27. Shri C. K. Chandrappan 28. Shri Dharnid.har Das 29. Shri P. K. Deo 30. Shrimati Marjorie Godfrey 31. Shri J. Matha Gowder 32. Shri Samar Guha 33. Shri J. G. Kadam 34. Shri Kinder La! 35. Kumari Kamla Kumari :@@36.· Shri Jharkhande Rai 37. Shri Mallikarjun 38. Shri Krishnan Manoharan 39. Shri Shyamnandan Mishra 40. Shri F. H. Mohsin 41. Shri Samar Mukherjee . 42. Shri Narsingh Narain Pandey · 43. Shri S. T. Pandit 44. Shri P. Parthasarthy · 45. Shri Arvind M. Patel 46. Shri Krishnarao Patil 47. Shri S. Rad.hakrishnan 48. Shri Ram Dhan 49. Shri Ram Singh Bhai 50. Shrimati B. Radhabai Ananda Rao 51. Shri .Tagannath Rao ·52. Shri Umed Singh Rathia 53. Shri Mulki Raj Saini . 54. Shri S. C. Samanta 55. Shri M. R. Sharma 56. Shri Nuggehalli Shivappa 57. Shri Hari Kishw-e Singh 58. Shri Sant Bux Singh 59. Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee 6Q. Sll!i Virbhadra Singh REPRESENTATIVES• OF THE MINISTRIES Minist!ry of Law and Justice 1. Shri 8; K Maitra-Joint Secretary and Legislative Counsel. 2. Shri V. S. Bhashyam-Deputy Legislative Counsel. Ministry of Home Affairs 1. Shri C. V. Narasimhan-Joint Secretary. 2. Shri A C. Sen-Deputy Secretary. SECRETARIAT 1. Sbri S. ·p, Ganguly-Additional Secretary. 2. Shri M. K. Jain-Chief. Legislative Committee Officer. 3_.. Shri R. K.. Mazumder-Senior Legislative Committee Officer. @,1\ppointed on 17.-12-1974.. vice Sardar Buta. Singh resigned on, U-ll-19H. · @@Appointed on 6-9-1974 vice Shrimati Parvathi Krishnan resigned on 19-8-1974. REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE I. the Chairman of the Joint Committee t~ which the Bill* to regulate the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or hospitality by certain persons. or associations, and for matters. connected therewith or incidental thereto, was referred, having been authorised by the Joint Committee. to sub~t the ~port on its behalf, present this Report of the Cornnuttee, With the Bill, as amended by the Committee, annexed thereto. 2. The Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on the 24th December 1973. The motion for reference of the Bill to a Joint Committee of th~ Houses was moved by Shri Raz:n Niwas Mirdha, the then Minister ot State in the Ministry of Home Affairs and in the Department of Personnel on the 19th February, 1974, and was adopted by the House on the same day (Appendix I) . 3. The Lok Sabha CGilCurred in the motion on the 25th March, 1974 (Appendix II). · . 4. The Message from the -Lok Sabha was reported to the Rajya Sabha on the 25th March, 1974. 5. The Committee held 33 sittings in all. Of these, four sittings eacb were held at Bombay (27th, 28th, 29th June and 1st July, 1974) .. Calcutta (16th, 17th, 18th and 19tth September, 1974), Madras (7th, 8th, 9th and lOth October, 1974) and one sitting at Shillong (21st September, 1974), with the permission of the Chairman, Rajya Sabha, to hear oral evidence from witnesses (Appendix. VI-Minutes). 6. At its first sitting held on the lOth April, 1974, the Cwnmittee decided that a Press Communique be issued inviting opinions from various individuals, associations, organisations, po.litical parties and public bodies interested in the subject matter of the Bill and advising them to send their memoranda .•thereon to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat by the 15th May, 1974, which· date was subsequently extended upto the 20~. June, 1974. The CQillmittee also decided to call witnesses for giving oral evir dence on the Bill and authorised the Chairman to decide, after E'Xanl.ining all the memoranda, as to who might be invited for the purpose. The Chairman also requested Members to suggest names of persons or- associa­ tions, etc. whom they would like to be invited t~ give oral evidence b~ fore the Committee. Besides this, the Committee decided that the. follow­ ing be approached for giving their views on the Bill, namely:..,- (i) State Governments (ii) State Bar Councils and High Court Bar Assoc.iations (iii) Recogriised PoJ,itical Parties and Registered Trade Unions (iv) Attorney-G.eneral and Solicitor-General (v) Advocates-General of States · (vi) Universities in India (Law ·Faculties) (vii) Academic Institutions like Indian Law Institute,. New Delhi, Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies, New Delhi. Laski Institute at Ahmedabad, Gokhale School of Economics and Political Science at POQila, etc. •Published in Part IL Section 2 of the Gax<!tte of India Extraordinary, dated the 24th December, 1973. · iii iv 7. To facilitate the work of the Committee, a questionnaire was issued (Appendix ill). 8: Sixty-one memoranda containing views, comments, suggestions and replies to the questionnaire on the Bill were received by the Committee from various individuals, as50!Ciations, etc. (Appendix IV). 9. The Committee heard the evidence tendered by Eighty-four wit­ nesses (Appendix V). 10. The Committee decided that the whole of the oral evidence tender­ ed before it should be laid on the Table in both Houses. 11. The Report of the Committee was to be presented to the House by the last day of the first week of the Eighty-eighth Session of the Rajya Sabha.