The Passport (Amendment) Rules, 2011 (01.09.2011)

Rule, 2011

A rule made under the The Passports Act, 1967.

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Made under The Passports Act, 1967.

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EXTRAORDINARY

PART n-section 3--Sub-section (i) PUBLISHED BYAUlHORITV No. 487] NEW DELHI, TIfURSDAY, SEPTEMBER It 2011IBHADRA 10, 1933

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MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

I New Delhi, the Ist September, 2011 J GS.R. 6S5(£).-ln exercise ofthe powers conferred by clause (a) of Section 22 of the Passports Act, 1967 (15 of 196 and in supersession of the notification ofthe Government of India, in the Ministry of External Aft'airs, published in the azette of India, Extraordinary, Part U, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide :1umberGS.R. 472(E), dated the 22nd May, 2000, the Geritral Government, being of the opinion that it is necessary and expedient in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the following persons from the operation of the provisions of Section 5 of the said Act, read with role 8 of the Passports Rules, 1980, in so far as such provisions relate to the payment of fees for issue or reissue of an ordinary thirty- six p~ges passport to be valid for ten years or five years, as the case may be, and for rendering of miscellaneous services on such a passport, narnely:-

(i) regular employees of the Central Passport Organisation and their spouses and children up to the age of fifteen years; .

(ii) retired employees of the Central Passport Organisation and their spouses; and

(m) employees who come on deputation to the Central Passport Organisation and their spouses and children up to the age of fifteen years, during their deputation to the Central Passport Organisation: Provided that such exemption of fees for issue or reissue of a passport and for rendering of any miscellaneous services on such a passport is not allowed to the person, who is-- . i (i) undergoing departmental proceedings for dereliction of duty or misconduct; or

(ii) compulsorily retired from the services or terminated from the services; or

(iu) awarded any major penalty during Departmental Inquiry proceedings; or

(iv) facing criminal proceedings on the allegations of corruption, criminal misconduct, misappropriation of public funds; or

(v) convicted of any offence by any court in India.

MUKTESH K.. PARDESHI, It. Secy. and Chief Passport Officer Printed ·by the Manager, Government of India Press, Ring Road. Mayapuri. New Delhi- I 10064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-IIOOS4.

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Other instruments under the same Act

All of the The Passports Act, 1967

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