Notification No. 869 — Approval of an institution under section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961

What this is

Notification No. 869 was published on 4 January 1978. Its subject is Approval of an institution under section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

This is an approval of a named institution. It affects that institution and the people who deal with it; the years it covers are stated in it and are the whole of its reach.

The provisions it speaks to

Left, the provision of the Income-tax Act, 1961 as the instrument itself names it. Right, the section of the Income-tax Act, 2025 that the department’s own concordance maps it to — which is where the same ground is now covered.

Under the 1961 Act	Now
s.35	s.45, s.66

The instrument, as the Board published it

The words below are the department’s own, reproduced from its published text. Where the department’s copy carried a publisher’s notes after the instrument, those are not reproduced.

It is hereby notified for general information that the institution mentioned below has been approved by the Secretary, the Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi, the prescribed authority for the purposes of clause (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, under the category of " College " in the area of other natural or applied sciences, subject to the following conditions :---

(i) that the Ramnarain Ruia College, Bombay, will maintain a separate account of the sums received by it for scientific research in the field of natural or applied sciences (other than Agriculture/Animal Husbandry/Fisheries & Medicines) ;

(ii) that the said College will furnish the annual return of its scientific research activities to the prescribed authority for every financial year in such forms as may be laid down and intimated to them for this purpose, by 30th April, each year.

Institution

The Ramnarain Ruia College, Bombay.

This notification takes effect for a period of three years from 1-9-1977 to 31-8-1980.

[No. 2102 (F. No. 203/119/77--ITA. II)

On the same provision

Other instruments in this library that name the same provision of the 1961 Act. They are not necessarily still operative, and a later one may have replaced an earlier one without saying so.

Notification No. 6/2026 — Order under clause iia of sub section 1 of section 35 of the income tax act 1961 read with rule 5F of the income tax rul 12 May 2026
Notification No. 43/2026 [F. No. 203/11/2025/ITA-II] / SO 1659(E) — इिु बाला, उप सजचि 30 March 2026
Notification No. 42/2026 [F. No 203/09/2025/ITA-II] / SO 1658(E) — इिुबाला, उप सजचि 30 March 2026
Notification No. 40/2026 [F. No. 203/07/2025/ITA-II] / SO 1657(E) — Ministry of Finance 30 March 2026
Notification No. 5/2026 — Order under clause iia of sub section 1 of section 35 of the income tax act 1961 read with rule 5F of the income tax rul 23 March 2026
Notification No. 24/2026 [F. No. 203/13/2025/ITA-II] / SO 1491(E) — Ministry of Finance 20 March 2026

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What a notification is. A notification is made under a power the Act itself gives, and within that power it is law — unlike a circular, which only binds the department. Its reach is the reach of the enabling provision and no wider, and the date it carries decides from when it works.

Source: the Income Tax Department’s own published text — its page for this instrument.