MANU/HOME/0117/2019

Ministry : Ministry of Home Affairs

Notification No. : GSR586(E)

Date of Notification : 21.08.2019

Date of Publication : 21.08.2019

Notification/ Circulars Referred : G.S.R. 803(E), dated the 9th November, 2009 MANU/HOME/0148/2009;G.S.R. 207(E), dated the 23rd March 2010 MANU/HOME/0057/2010;Number G.S.R. 722(E), dated the 30th July 2018 MANU/HOME/0092/2018

Subject: Administrative

Citing Reference:
G.S.R. 803(E), dated the 9th November, 2009 MANU/HOME/0148/2009  Referred

G.S.R. 207(E), dated the 23rd March 2010 MANU/HOME/0057/2010  Referred

Number G.S.R. 722(E), dated the 30th July 2018 MANU/HOME/0092/2018  Referred

Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Amendment Rules, 2019

G.S.R.586(E).--In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) and (3) of section 18 of the Citizenship Act, 1955 (57 of 1955), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003, namely :-

1. Short title and commencement.--

(1) These rules may be called the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Amendment Rules, 2019.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003, in the Schedule, in paragraph 8, for the words "sixty days", the words "One hundred and twenty days" shall be substituted.

[F. No. 26011/2/2003-IC-I]
ANIL MALIK, Jt. Secy.

Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-Section (ii) vide notification number G.S.R. 937(E), dated the 10th December, 2003 and was subsequently amended vide G.S.R. 803(E), dated the 9th November, 2009, G.S.R. 207(E), dated the 23rd March 2010 and number G.S.R. 722(E), dated the 30th July 2018.