Notification No. 2/FTT/81 Date 19/03/1981

Provide exemption to the Officials of Diplomatic Missions, other than those holding diplomatic status and their families and Officials of foreign consulates in India & their families.
G.S.R. 186(E). In exercise of the powers conferred by section 36 of the Finance Act, 1979 (21 of 1979), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary and expedient to do, hereby exempts the categories of passengers specified in column (2) of the Table below from payment of foreign travel tax leviable under sub-section (1) of section 35 of the said Act, in respect of their international journey to any place outside India subject to the conditions specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table.

Table

S. No.	Category of passengers	Conditions
(1)	(2)	(3)
1.	Officials of Diplomatic Missions, other than those holding diplomatic status, who are not nationals of, or permanently resident in, India and are employed inn administrative or technical services of the mission and their families.	Production of a certificate from the Head of the diplomatic mission in India or an Officer authorised by him in this behalf to the effect that the passenger is an official of the mission or is a member of the family of such an official.
2.	Officials of foreign consulates in India who are not nationals of, or permanently resident in, India and their families.	Production of a certificate from the Head of the foreign consulate in India or an officer authorised by him in this behalf that the passenger is an official or the foreign consulate or is a member of the family of such an official.

[No. 2/FTT/81-F 306/12/79-FTT issued vide GSR No. 186(E) dated 19th March, 1981]

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