Validity of PIO Card
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No.
233] NEW DELHI,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2014/ASVINA 8, 1936
MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi,
the 30th September, 2014
No. 25024/9/2014-F.I.—In the notification of
the Government of India in the Ministry of Home
Affairs
number 26011/4/98-F.I dated the 19th August, 2002, published in the Gazette of
India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 19th August, 2002, the
Central Government hereby makes the following amendments in the Scheme for
issuance of Person of Indian Origin Card (PIO Card) Scheme, 2002, namely:—
1. (1) This scheme may be called the
Scheme for issuance of Person of Indian Origin Card (PIO Card) Amendment
Scheme, 2014.
(2) It shall come into effect on the date of its publication in the
Official Gazette.
2. In the
Scheme for issuance of Person of Indian Origin Card (PIO Card) Scheme, 2002,—
(a) for paragraph 6, the following paragraph shall be substituted, namely :— “6. Validity of PIO Card: A PIO Card issued to an applicant shall be valid for his life time from the date of
its issue provided that such applicant has a valid passport.
Explanation.—For the purpose of this paragraph, it is hereby clarified that a PIO Card
which has been issued prior to the date of publication of this notification
shall be deemed to be valid for life time of its holder subject to the
condition that such person has a valid passport.”
(b) In paragraph 9,—
(i) In sub-paragraph (ii), the words and
figures “ if his stay on any single visit in India does not exceed 180 days”
shall be omitted;
(ii) sub-paragraph (iii)
shall be omitted;
(iii) sub-paragraph (iv)
shall be renumbered as sub-paragraph (iii).
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