Section 5: Fellows and Associates.

The Chartered Accountants Act, 1949Central Act · Act 38 of 1949

(1) The members of the Institute shall be divided into two classes designated respectively as associates and fellows.

(2) Any person shall, on his name being entered in the [Register of members], be deemed to have become an associate member of the Institute and be entitled to use the letters A. C. A. after his name to indicate that he is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

[(3) A member, being an associate who has been in continuous practice in India for at least five years, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, or whether partly before and partly after the commencement of this Act, and a member who has been an associate for a continuous period of not less than five years and who possesses such qualifications as the Council may prescribe with a view to ensuring that he has experience equivalent to the experience normally acquired as a result of continuous practice for a period of five years as a chartered accountant shall, on payment of such fees, as may be determined, by notification, by the Council ***, and on application made and granted in the prescribed manner, be entered in the Register as a fellow of the Institute and shall be entitled to use the letters F. C. A. after his name to indicate that he is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants:

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Where this provision sits

Act	The Chartered Accountants Act, 1949
Section	5
Marginal note	Fellows and Associates.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

substituted. . Subs. by s. 5, ibid., for “Register” (w.e.f. 10-5-2022).
substituted, Act 9 of 2006. . Subs. by Act 9 of 2006, s. 4, for sub-section (3) (w.e.f. 8-8-2006).
omitted, Act 12 of 2022. . The words “which shall not exceed rupees five thousand” omitted by Act 12 of 2022, s. 5 (w.e.f. 10-5-2022).
omitted. . The Proviso omitted by s. 5, ibid. (w.e.f. 10-5-2022).

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