September 12, 2026

Third Schedule – Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967

The Third Schedule

[See clause (b) of Explanation to section 15(1)]

Security Features to Define High Quality Counterfeit Indian Currency Notes

Watermark(s), Security thread and any one of the following features:

  1. Latent image;
  2. See through registration;
  3. Print quality sharpness;
  4. Raised effect;
  5. Fluorescent characteristics;
  6. Substrate quality;
  7. Paper taggant;
  8. Colour shift effect in OVI;
  9. Colour shift effect in security thread.

Third Schedule substituted by G.S.R. 231(E), dated 18-3-2014.