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Indian Passport Rules, 1921, as amended by Government of India’s Notification
in the Foreign and Political Department, No. 3610 948—Gen.,
dated 8th November 1922.
In exercise oE the powers conferred by section 3 of the Indian Passport
Act, 1920 (XXXIV. of 1920), the Governor-General in Council is pleased to
make the following rules—
1. These rules may he called the Indian Passport Pules, 1921.
2. In these rules, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context, “ competent authority ” means any person authorised by order in
writing by the Governor-General in Council or by the Local Government to
exercise the powers of a competent authority under these rules.
3. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained no person proceeding
from any place outside India shall enter British India by sea unless he is in
possession of a passport.
Explanation.—A person entering British India by sea shall not be
deemed to be proceeding from a place outside India by reason only of the
fact that he has traversed extra-territorial waters in the course of his
journey.
4. Every such passport ~
(i) shall have been issued or renewed not more than two years
previously by or on behalf of the Government of the country of
which the person to whom it relates is a subject;
(ii) shall, except in the case of passports issued to Pardanashin or
Gosha women travelling to British India from Malaya, the
Straits Settlements, the East African Protectorate, Uganda,
Zanzibar, Mauritius, the Xyasaland Protectorate, the Union of
South Africa, or Mesopotamia, or from any port in the Persian
Gulf, have affixed to it a photograph of the person to whom it
relates, duly authenticated by the issuing authority ;
(iii) when issued by or on behalf of His Majesty’s Government or the
Government of any British possession shall be specifically valid for
entry into any part of the British Empire or shall have been
specifically endorsed by a competent British authority as valid for
entry into British India ;
(iv) when issued by or on behalf of the Government of a foreign
country shall have been endorsed by way of visa for British India
by the proper British Diplomatic, Consular or Military Authority
in that country. Such visa shall be of one of the following kinds,
namely :—
(a) a transit visa valid for one year, or for such shorter period
as may be specified therein (provided that in no case shall it be
valid for a period exceeding the period for which the visa for the
country of ultimate destination is valid), for one or more direct
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