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TCS Rules

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  • 12Subscription
  • 13Gifts
  • 13ADowry
  • 14Public demonstrations in honour of Government employees
  • 15Private trade or employment
  • 16Investment, lending and borrowing
  • 17Insolvency and habitual indebtedness
  • 18Movable, immovable and valuable property
  • 18ARestrictions in relation to acquisition and disposal of immovable property outside India and transaction with foreigners etc
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TCS Rules 13A

Section 13A · Dowry

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- No Government employee shall-

(i)

give or take or abet the giving or taking of dowry; or

(ii)

demand directly or indirectly, from the parent of guardian of a bride or bide-groom, as the case may be, any dowry.
Explanation. For the purposes of this rule, "dowry" has the same meaning as in the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (28 of 1961).

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