In force
The Passports Act, 1967
26 sections · As amended up to 2026-08
Sections
- 1Short title and extent
- 2Definitions
- 3Passport or travel document for departure from India
- 4Classes of passports and travel documents
- 5Applications for passports, travel documents, etc, and orders thereon
- 6Refusal of passports, travel documents, etc
- 7Duration of passports and travel documents
- 9Conditions and forms of passports and travel documents
- 10Variation, impounding and revocation of passports and travel documents
- 10ASuspension of passports or travel documents in certain cases
- 10BValidation of intimations
- 11Appeals
- 12Offences and penalties
- 13Power to arrest
- 14Power of search and seizure
- 15Previous sanction of Central Government necessary
- 16Protection of action taken in good faith
- 17Passports and travel documents to be property of Central Government
- 19Passports and travel documents to be invalid for travel to certain countries
- 20Issue of passports and travel documents to persons who are not citizens of
- 21Power to delegate
- 22Power to exempt
- 23Act to be in addition to certain enactments
- 24Power to make rules
- 25Change of short title of Act 34 of 1920
- 27Repeal and saving