Rule, 2000

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REGD NO. D. L.-33004/99

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 284] NEW DELHI, MONDAY, MAY 22, 2000/JYAISTHA 1,1922 1429 GI/2000 0)

MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 22nd May, 2000

G.S.R. 472(E).— whereas the Central Government is of the opinion that employees of the Central Passport Organisations and spouses and children of such employees should be exempted from the operation of provisions of section 5 of the Passport Act, 1967 (15 of 1967); in so far as they relate to payment of fees.

And Whereas it is necessary and expedient in the public interest so to do;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of section 22 of the Passport Act, 1967 (15 of 1967), the Central Government hereby exempts the regular employees of the Central Passport Organisation, their spouses and children Upto the age of 15 years, from the operation of the provisions of section 5 of the said Act, read with rule 8 of the Passport Rules, 1980 in so far as such provisions relate to the payment of fees for issuing an ordinary 36 page passport to be valid for 10 years or 20 years, as the case may be, and its renewal and for rendering of miscellaneous services on such passport.

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 22nd May, 2000

G.S.R. 473(E).— |n exercise of the power conferred by section 24 of the Passport Act, 1967 (15 of 1967), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Passport Rules. 1980, namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Passport (Amendment) Rules, 2000.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In Schedule IV to the Passport Rules, 1980.

(a) for serial number 29 to 32 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely :- Out of turn (Tatkaal) Passport Issue of fresh out of turn (Tatkaal)Passports within ten days of the date of application.

Issue of fresh out of turn (Tatkaal) Passports between eleven to thirty five days of the date of application.

Issue of duplicate out of turn (Tatkaal) Passport within ten days of the date of application in lieu of an ordinary the passport fee as applicable the passport fee as applicable Rs. 2500/- plus the duplicate passport fee as applicable Rs. 3750/- plus the passport fee as applicable Rs. 2250/- plus the passport fee as applicable No fee in addition to the duplicate passport fee as applicable passport where it has been stolen, damaged, destroyed or for any other such reasons.

Issue of duplicate out of turn (Tatkaal) Passport between 11 to 35 days of the date of application in lieu of an ordinary passport where it has been stolen, damaged, destroyed or for any other such reasons.

In all re-issue cases after expiry of ten/twenty years' validity, where passport is to be re-issued out of turn of the date of application In all re-issue cases after expiry of ten/twenty years' validity, where passport is to be re-issued out of turn (Tatkaal) between 11 to 35 days of the date of application In all cases of additional booklet to be issued out of turn (Tatkaal)within ten days of the date of application Rs. 1500/- plus the duplicate passport fee as applicable the passport fee as applicable the passport fee as applicable the passport fee as applicable No fee in addition to the duplicate passport fee as applicable Rs. 3750/- plus the passport fee as applicable No additional fee No additional fee

(b) for the note, the following note shall be substituted namely:- "Note : Only passport fee as applicable would be payable for grant of an out-of-turn Tatkaal passport covered under serial Nos. 29,30,31 32,33,34 and 35 in the following cases, namely :-

(i) The applicant has been advised to go abroad for specialised medical treatment and consultation.

(ii) The attendant (one only) who would need to accompany the applicant referred to at (i) above.

(iii) in case of death abroad of spouse, father, mother, child, child's spouse, grand child, brother or his spouse, and sister or her spouse, of the applicant" and

(iv) in the case of a student applicant requiring a passport for appearing in the examination for admission to some foreign educational institution, or for going abroad for studies, provided his/her parents'/guardians' income is less than Rs.2000/- per month."

(v) all diplomatic/official passport holders who apply for an ordinary passport in lieu of their diplomatic/official passport.

Note.—Principal rules published vide Notification No.

GSR 657 (E) dated December 11, 1980 (1980 external) Part II Section 3, sub-section (I), subsequently amended by :-

1. Notification No.

GSR 50 (E) dated 7.02.1980

2. Notification No.

GSR 469 (E) dated 24.06.1982

3. Notification No.

GSR 325 (E) dated 12.04.1983

4. Notification No.

GSR 494 (E) dated 16.06.1983

5. Notification No.

GSR 345 (E) dated 29.03.1985

6. Notification No.

GSR 860 (E) dated 1.11.1985

7. Notification No.

GSR 1155(E) dated 21.11.1988

8. Notification No.

GSR 100 (E) dated 4.03.1991

9. Notification No.

GSR 503 (E) dated 10.07.1993

10. Notification No.

GSR 622 (E) dated 27.06.1990

11. Notification No.

GSR 605 (E) dated 5.10.1998

12. Notification No.

GSR 516 (E) dated 8.07.199a

13. Notification No.

GSR 827 (E) dated 29.12.1999

14. Notification No.

GSR 34 (E) dated 12.01.2000 Printed by the Manager, Govt. of India Press. Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications. Delhi-110054.

Provisions this rule answers to

Read out of the instrument itself: an enabling provision is one it says it was made under, which is the power it rests on. The rest it names without resting on.

Other instruments under the same Act

All of the The Passports Act, 1967