Foreign private investment
                        
                        
                    
                    
                    
                    
                
            
            
                
                3. (1) The Government may, for the promotion of foreign private investment, sanction establishment with foreign capital of any industrial undertaking- 	
 
 
(a) 	which does not exist in Bangladesh and the establishment whereof, in the opinion of the Government, is desirable; or 
 
 
 
 
(b) 	which is not being carried on in Bangladesh on a scale adequate to the economic and social needs of the country; or 	
 
 
	 
 
(c)	which is likely to contribute to- 	
 
 
	 
 
(i)	the development of capital, technical and managerial resources of Bangladesh; or 	
 
 
	 
 
(ii)	 the discovery, mobilisation or better utilisation of the natural resources; or 	
 
 
	 
 
(iii) the strengthening of the balance of payment of Bangladesh; or 	
 
 
	 
 
(iv)	 increasing employment opportunities in Bangladesh; or 	
 
 
	 
 
(v) 	the economic development of the country in any other manner. 	
 
 
	 
 
	(2) Sanction of the establishment with foreign capital of an industrial undertaking under sub-section (1) may be subject to such conditions as the Government may deem fit to impose.