Section 6 in The Foreign Exchange Management (Foreign Currency Accounts By A Person Resident In India) Regulations, 2000
6. [ Opening, holding and maintaining a Foreign Currency Account in India in certain other cases.
(1)A shipping or airline company incorporated outside India or its agent in India, may open, hold and maintain a Foreign Currency Account with an authorised dealer in India for meeting the local expenses in India of such airline or shipping company:Provided that the credits to such accounts are only by way of freight or passage fare collections in India or by inward remittances through normal banking channels from its office outside India and, in the case of agent, from his principal outside India.(2)An authorised dealer in India may, subject to the directions as may be issued by the Reserve Bank, allow ship-manning/crew managing agencies in India to open and maintain non-interest bearing foreign currency accounts in India for the purpose of undertaking transactions in the ordinary course of their business.](3)[ An authorized dealer in India may, subject to the directions as may be issued by the Reserve Bank, allow Project Offices set up in India by foreign companies in terms of clause (ii) of Regulation 5 of Foreign Exchange Management (Establishment in India of Branch or Office or other Place of Business) Regulations, 2000 dated May 3, 2000, as amended from time to time to open, hold and maintain non-interest bearing [one or more foreign currency accounts] [Substituted by Notification No. G.S.R. 340 (E) dated 5.4.2010 (w.e.f. 17.5.2005)] in India for the projects to be executed in India.][6A. Foreign Currency Account of a Unit in a Special Economic Zone.- A unit located in a Special Economic Zone may open, hold and maintain a Foreign Currency Account with an authorised dealer in India provided that--(a)all foreign exchange funds received by the unit in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) are credited to such account;(b)no foreign exchange purchased in India against rupees shall be credited to the account without prior permission from the Reserve Bank;(c)the funds held in the account shall be used for bona fide trade transactions of the unit in the SEZ with the person resident in India or otherwise;(d)the balances in the accounts shall be exempt from the restrictions imposed under rule 5, except items 3 and 4 of the Schedule III, of the Government of India Notification No. G.S.R. 381 (E), dated May 3, 2000:Provided further that the funds held in these accounts shall not be lent or made available in any manner to any person or entity resident in India not being a unit in Special Economic Zones.]
