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Start Free TrialPassports Act, 1967 Section 10
Title: Variation, Impounding and Revocation of Passports and Travel Documents
State: Central
Year: 1967
.....passport authority and the foregoing provisions of this section shall, as far as may be, apply in relation to the impounding or revocation of a passport or travel document by such authority. (7) A court convicting the holder of a passport or travel document of any offence under this Act or the rules made thereunder may also revoke the passport or travel document: Provided that if the conviction is set aside on appeal or otherwise the revocation shall become void. (8) An order of revocation under sub-section (7) may also be made by an appellate court or by the High Court when exercising its powers of revision. (9) On the revocation of a passport or travel document under this section the holder thereof shall, without delay, surrender the passport or travel document, if the same has not already been impounded, to the authority by whom it has been revoked or to such other authority as may be specified in this behalf in the order of revocation. ______________________ 1.Inserted by Act 31 of 1993, section 4 (w.e.f. 1-7-1993).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPassports Act, 1967 Section 5
Title: Applications for Passports, Travel Documents, Etc., and Orders Thereon
State: Central
Year: 1967
.....section], the passport authority, after making such inquiry, if any, as it may consider necessary, shall, subject to the other provisions of this Act, by order in writing,-- (a) issue the passport or travel document with endorsement, or, as the case may be, make on the passport or travel document the endorsement, in respect of the foreign country or countries specified in the application; or (b) issue the passport or travel document with endorsement, or, as the case may be, make on the passport or travel document the endorsement, in respect of one or more of the foreign countries specified in the application and refuse to make an endorsement in respect of the other country or countries; or (c) refuse to issue the passport or travel document or, as the case may be, refuse to make on the passport or travel document any endorsement. (3) Where the passport authority makes an order under clause (b) or clause (c) of sub-section (2) on the application of any person, it shall record in writing a brief statement of its reasons for making such order and furnish to that person on demand a copy of the same unless in any case the passport authority is of the opinion that it will.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPassports Act, 1967 Complete Act
Title: Passports Act, 1967
State: Central
Year: 1967
..... Section16 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section17 - Passports and travel documents to be property of Central Government Section18 - Passports, etc. not to be issued to persons who cannot emigrate under Act 7 of 1922 [Omitted] Section19 - Passports and travel documents to be invalid for travel to certain countries Section20 - Issue of passports and travel documents to persons who are not citizens of India Section21 - Power to delegate Section22 - Power to exempt Section23 - Act to be in addition to certain enactments Section24 - Power to make rules Section25 - Change of short title of Act 34 of 1920 Section26 - Savings as to certain passports and applications (omitted) Section27 - Repeal and saving Amending Act1 - AMENDMENT ACT
List Judgments citing this sectionPassports Act, 1967 Section 10A
Title: Suspension of Passports or Travel Documents in Certain Cases
State: Central
Year: 1967
.....officer is satisfied that the passport or travel document is likely to be impounded or caused to be impounded or revoked under clause (c) of sub-section (3) of section 10 and it is necessary in the public interest so to do, it or he may,-- (a) by order, suspend, with immediate effect, any passport or travel document; (b) pass such other appropriate order which may have the effect of rendering any passport or travel document invalid, for a period not exceeding four weeks: Provided that the Central Government or the designated officer may, if it or he considers appropriate, extend, by order and for reasons to be recorded in writing, the said period of four weeks till the proceedings relating to variation, impounding or revocation of passport or travel document under section 10 are concluded: Provided further that every holder of the passport or travel document, in respect of whom an order under clause (a) or clause (b) of this sub-section had been passed, shall be given an opportunity of being heard within a period of not later than eight weeks reckoned from the date of passing of such order and thereupon the Central Government may, if necessary, by order in writing,.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPassports Act, 1967 Section 7
Title: Duration of Passports and Travel Documents
State: Central
Year: 1967
A passport or travel document shall, unless revoked earlier, continue in force for such period as may be prescribed and different periods may be prescribed for different classes of passports or travel documents or for different categories of passports or travel documents under each such class: Provided that a passport or travel document may be issued for a shorter period than the prescribed period-- (a) if the person by whom it is required so desires; or (b) if the passport authority, for reasons to be communicated in writing to the applicant, considers in any case that the passport or travel document should be issued for a shorter period.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPassports Act, 1967 Section 3
Title: Passport or Travel Document for Departure from India
State: Central
Year: 1967
No person shall depart from, or attempt to depart from India, unless he holds in this behalf a valid passport or travel document. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section,-- (a) "passport" includes a passport which having been issued by or under the authority of the Government of a foreign country satisfies the conditions prescribed under the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920 (34 of 1920), in respect of the class of passports to which it belongs; (b) "travel document" includes a travel document which having been issued by or under the authority of the Government of a foreign country satisfies the conditions prescribed.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPassports Act, 1967 Section 4
Title: Classes of Passports and Travel Documents
State: Central
Year: 1967
(1) The following classes of passports may be issued under this Act, namely:-- (a) ordinary passport; (b) official passport; (c) diplomatic passport. (2) The following classes of travel documents may be issued under this Act, namely:-- (a) emergency certificate authorising a person to enter India; (b) certificate of identity for the purpose of establishing the identity of a person; (c) such other certificate or document as may be prescribed. (3) The Central Government shall, in consonance with the usage and practice followed by it in this behalf, prescribe the classes of persons to whom the classes of passports and travel documents referred to respectively in sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) may be issued under this Act.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPassports Act, 1967 Section 9
Title: Conditions and Forms of Passports and Travel Documents
State: Central
Year: 1967
The conditions subject to which, and the form in which, a passport or travel document shall be issued or renewed shall be such as may be prescribed: Provided that different conditions and different forms may be prescribed for different classes of passports or travel documents or for different categories of passports or travel documents under each such class: Provided further that a passport or travel document may contain in addition to the prescribed conditions such other conditions as the passport authority may, with the previous approval of the Central Government, impose in any particular case.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPassports Act, 1967 Section 6
Title: Refusal of Passports, Travel Documents. Etc.
State: Central
Year: 1967
.....provisions of this Act, the passport authority shall refuse to make as endorsement for visiting any country under clause (b) or clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 5 on any one or more of the following grounds, and on no other ground, namely.-- (a) that the applicant may, or is likely to, engage in such country activities prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India; (b) that the presence of the applicant in such country may, or is likely t be detrimental to the security of India; (c) that the presence of the applicant in such country may, or is likely to, prejudice the friendly relations of India with that or any other country; (d) that in the opinion of the Central Government the presence of the applicant in such country is not in the public interest. (2) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the passport authority shall refuse to issue a passport or travel document for visiting any foreign country under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 5 on any one or more of the following grounds, and on no other ground, namely:-- (a) that the applicant is not a citizen of India; (b) that the applicant may, or is likely to, engage outside India in.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPassport Entry into India Act 1920 Preamble 1
Title: The Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920
State: Central
Year: 1920
THE PASSPORT (ENTRY INTO INDIA) ACT, 1920 [Act, No. 34 of 1920] [9th September, 1920] PREAMBLE ports of persons entAn Act to take power to require passering1[India]. WHEREAS it is expedient to take power to require passports of persons entering1[India]; It is hereby enacted as follows :-- ______________________ 1 . Substituted for the words "the Provinces of India" by the Indian Passport (Amdt.) Act, 1949 (36 of 1949), Section. 2 (28-4-1949).
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