The Ministry of Finance, through the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), issued Notification No. 68/2024 – Customs (NT) on October 22, 2024, amending the Records Information Regulations Passengers, 2022. This amendment is made under the powers conferred by section 157 of the Customs Act 1962. The key change involves the replacement of the wording of Regulation 5, sub-regulation (4), where the expression “time departure; or” has been updated to “departure time and”. The amendment aims to clarify the reporting of passenger departure details. These revised regulations, titled Passenger Name Record Information (First Amendment) Regulations, 2024, come into force immediately after their publication in the Official Gazette. The original Passenger Name Record Information Regulations, 2022 were published by the Ministry of Finance on August 8, 2022. This update is expected to streamline the information collection process in customs, thereby helping to improve the accuracy of data.

MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
(CENTRAL COUNCIL OF INDIRECT TAXES AND CUSTOMS)

Notification No. 68/2024 – Customs (NT) | Dated: October 22, 2024

GSR656(F).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with clause (ab) of sub-section (2) of section 157 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs hereby makes the following amendments to the Passenger Name Record Information Regulations, 2022 published see Notification number 67/2022-Customs (NT) of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Subsection (i), see number GSR 621 (E), dated 8^th August 2022, namely:-

1. Short title and beginning – (1) These regulations may be called the Passenger Name Record Information (First Amendment) Regulations 2024.

(2) They enter into force on the date of their publication in the Official Journal.

2. In the Passenger Name Record Information Regulations, 2022, in regulation 5, in sub-regulation (4), for the words “departure time; or”, the words “departure time and” are replaced.

(F. No. CBIC-21/90/2022-INV-CUSTOMS-CBEC)
POONAM BHATT, Dy. Dry. (Anti-smuggling unit)

Note : The Passenger Name Record Information Regulations, 2022, have been published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i). see number GSR 621 (E), dated 8^th August 2022.