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The Foreign Private Investment (Promotion and Protection) Act, 1980

( ACT NO. XI OF 1980 )

Expropriation and nationalisation
 
 
 
 
7. (1) Foreign private investment shall not be expropriated or nationalised or be subject to any measures having effect of expropriation or nationalisation except for a public purpose against adequate compensation which shall be paid expeditiously and be freely transferable.
 
 
(2) Adequate compensation for the purpose of sub-section (1) shall be an amount equivalent to the market value of investment expropriated or nationalised immediately before the expropriation or nationalisation.

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