Notification No. 4

Approval of an institution under section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961

What this is

Notification No. 4 was published on 22 July 1982. 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 Indian Council of Social Science Research, the prescribed authority for the purposes of clause (iii) of subsection (1) of section 35 the Income-tax Act, 1961, subject to the following conditions :---

(i) That the funds collected by the Mangalore University, Mangalore, under this exemption shall be utilized exclusively for promotion of research in Social Sciences.

(ii) That the University shall maintain a separate account of the funds so collected by them under this exemption and shall send to the Council an annual report of its activities along with the statement of accounts regularly showing specifically the funds collected under this exemption and the manner in which these funds are utilized.

(iii) That the University shall submit to the prescribed authority by 30th June, each year, a copy of each of their total income and expenditure and balance-sheet showing its assets and liabilities with a copy of each of these documents to the concerned Commissioner of Income-tax.

(iv) Any unutilized funds, out of the donations received under section 35(1)(iii) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, will be invested in the manner prescribed in section 13(1)(d) which includes investment in Govt. Saving Certificates, deposit in a Scheduled Bank, investment in U.T.I., deposits with the Public Sector Companies, deposits in Post Office and Govt. Companies, etc.

Institution

Mangalore University, Mangalore.

This notification is valid for a period of three years from the date of its issue.

[No. 4821/F. No. 203/156/81-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

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.