THE CONSERVATION OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE AND PREVENTION OF SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES ACT, 1974
An Act to provide for preventive detention in certain cases for the purposes of conservation
and augmentation of Foreign Exchange and prevention of smuggling activities and for matters
connected therewith.
WHEREAS violations of foreign exchange regulations and smuggling activities are having an
increasingly deleterious effect on the national economy and thereby a serious adverse effect on the
security of the State;
AND WHEREAS having regard to the persons by whom and the manner in which such activities or
violations are organised and carried on, and having regard to the fact that in certain areas which are highly
vulnerable to smuggling, smuggling activities of a considerable magnitude are clandestinely organised
and carried on, it is necessary for the effective prevention of such activities and violations to provide for
detention of persons concerned in any manner therewith;
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
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