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Chapter 0 of The Passports Act, 1967 (Act No. 15) View all Acts

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The Passports Act, 1967
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24-06-1967
The Passports Act, 1967
An Act to provide for the issue of passports and travel documents, to regulate the departure from India of citizens of India and other persons and for matters incidental or ancillary thereto.
Ministry of External Affairs
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Sections from Chapter 0 of The Passports Act, 1967 (Act No. 15)

1 - Short title and extent.
2 - Definitions.
3 - Passport or travel document for departure from India.
4 - Classes of passports and travel documents.
5 - Applications for passports, travel documents, etc, and orders thereon.
6 - Refusal of passports, travel documents, etc.
7 - Duration of passports travel documents.
8 - Extension of period of Passport.
9 - Conditions and forms of passports and travel documents.
10 - Variation, impounding and revocation of passports and travel documents.
10A - Suspension of passports or travel documents in certain cases.
10B - Validation of intimations.
11 - Appeals.
12 - Offences and penalties.
13 - Power to arrest.
14 - Power of search and seizure.
15 - Previous sanction of Central Government necessary.
16 - Protection of action taken in good faith.
17 - Passports and travel documents to be property of Central Government.
18 - [Omitted].
19 - Passports and travel documents to be invalid for travel to certain countries.
20 - Issue of passports and travel documents to persons who are not citizens of India.
21 - Power to delegate.
22 - Power to exempt.
23 - Act to be in addition to certain enactments.
24 - Power to make rules.
25 - Change of short title of Act 34 of 1920.
26 - Omitted.
27 - Repeal and saving.
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