India-Specific
Special Economic Zone — designated area in India where export-oriented units operate under special economic regulations.
Indian SEZs are creatures of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 — Act 28 of 2005, under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry — “An Act to provide for the establishment, development and management of the Special Economic Zones for the promotion of exports and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.” Two things follow from that being a statute rather than a scheme. The zone, its developer and its units are legal categories with defined obligations, not administrative conveniences; and the whole apparatus is anchored to one stated object, the promotion of exports, which is the lens through which its concessions are framed and periodically contested.
India Code publishes the Act itself, which is a stronger source here than an institutional “about us” page: a website describes a body, an Act constitutes it. What is quoted above is the Act’s long title — the purpose Parliament gave it — and nothing more. No section of any Act is quoted or cited on this page, because India Code’s section-level pages did not serve readable text; procedural detail, eligibility and thresholds are in the Act and its rules, not here.
From the AJG lexicon archive (July 2026).
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