(3) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely: —
(a) the appointment, jurisdiction, control and functions ol passport authorities;
(b) the classes of persons to whom passports and travel documents referred to respectively in sub-section (1) and subsection (2) of section 4 may be issued;
(e) the form and particulars of application for the issue or renewal of a passport or travel document or for endorsement on a passport or a travel document and where the application is for the renewal, the time within which it shall be made;
(d) the period for which passports and travel documents shall continue in force;
(e) the form in which and the conditions subject to which the different classes of passports and travel documents may be issued, renewed, varied, impounded or revoked;
(f) the fees payable in respect of any application for the issue or renewal of a passport or travel document or for varying any endorsement or making a fresh endorsement on a passport or a travel document or for issue of a duplicate passport or travel document and the fees payable in respect of any appeal under this Ordinance;
(g) the appointment of appellate authorities under subsection (1) of section 11, the jurisdiction of, and the procedure which may be followed by, such appellate authorities;
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(h) any other matter which is to be, or may be, prescribed.
(3) Every rule made under this Ordinance shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
24. In the Indian Passport Act, 1920, in sub-section (1) of section
1. for the words and figures "the Indian Passport Act. 1920", the words, brackets and figures "the passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920" shall be substituted.
25. Every passport and every travel document issued by or under the authority of the Central Government before the commencement uf this Ordinance and in force immediately before such commencement shall be deemed to have been issued under this Ordinance and shall subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, continue in force—
(a) for the unexpired portion of the period for which such passport or travel document had been issued; or
(b) for a period of five years from the commencement of this Ordinance, whichever is shorter.
S. RADHAKRISHNAN, President.
S. P. SEN-VARMA, Secy, to the Gnvt. of India.
PRINTED IN INDIA BY THE GENERAL MANAGER, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PRESS, MINTO ROAD NEW DELHI AND PUBLISHED BY THE MANAGER OP PUBLICATIONS, DELHI, 1967.