Notification No. 2729 — Approval of an institution under section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961

What this is

Notification No. 2729 was published on 20 August 1981. 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, Department of Science and 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, read with rule (iv) of the Income-tax Rules, 1962, under the category " Association " in the area of other natural and applied sciences subject to the following conditions :--

1. That the Kothari Research Foundation, Madras, will maintain a separate account of the sums received by it for scientific research in the field of natural and applied sciences (other than agriculture/animal husbandry/fisheries and medicines).

2. That the said Foundation will furnish annual retrun of its scientific research activities to the prescribed authority for every financial year in such form as may be laid down and intimated to them for this purpose by 30th April, each year.

3. That the said Foundation will submit the annual return and statement of accounts to the Commissioner of Income-tax, Madras, for every year.

Institution

Kothari Research Foundation, Madras.

This notification is effective for a period of 3 years from 14-4-1981 to 13-4-1984.

[No. 4175/F. No. 203/2-81-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.