REGISTRATION OF
FOREIGNERS RULES, 1966
[6th Dec., 1966]
S.R.O. 178(R) B6 dated
10th December, 1986. In exercise of the
power conferred by section 3 of the Registration of Foreigners Act 1939 (XVI of
1939) the Federal Govt. is pleased to made the above rules, the same having
been proviso Publish, as may be required by the said section.
1. Short title and
commencement: (1) These rules may be
called the Registration of Foreigners Rules, 1966.
(2) They shall come into
force at once.
2. Definitions: In these
rules, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context‑‑
(a) "Act
means" the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939 (XVI of 1939);
(b) "Certificate of
Registration" means a Certificate of Registration issued in pursuance of
Rule 7;
© "Form" means
a form appended to these rules;
(d) "Master of the
Vessel" Includes the pilot of an aircraft and person authorised by such
master or pilot to discharge on his behalf any of the duties imposed upon him
by these rules;
(e) "Owner of the Vessel"
includes any person authorised by the owners to discharge on his behalf any of
the duties Imposed upon him by these rules;
(f)
"passenger" means any person travelling or seeking to travel on board
a vessel who is not bona fide seaman;
(g) "Police
officer" Includes, in the Quetta and Kalat Divisions, a levy officer, and
"'police officer not below the rank of the head constable" Includes a
levy officer not below the rank of jamadar;
(h) "registered
address" means a foreigner's Intended address in Pakistan as reported
under rule 6 and recorded in item 10 of his Certificate of Registration and
includes the address as subsequently recorded in his Certificate of
Registration under rule 12;
(i) "Registration
Officer" means a Registration Officer appointed by the Central Government
under rule 3 and includes an authority authorised in writing by a Registration
Officer to perform the duties of the Registration Officer on his behalf;
(j)
"Residence" means ordinarily dwelling place in Pakistan;
(k) "Seaman"
means a person employed on, or engaged in the working of a vessel.
(i) [omitted]
(Inst. by S.R.O. 1110 (1)/72, dated 17th
November, 1972.)[(II) "Tourist":
means a foreigner of any of the following categories, who has no residence or
occupation in Pakistan and whose stay in the country does not exceed three
months, namely,:‑‑
(i) a person visiting
Pakistan for recreations or right
seeing:
(ii) a person travelling
for domestic or health reasons;
(iii) a person an study
or lecture tour of a pilgrimage;
(iv) a person travelling
in his individual or representative capacity to attend a meeting or function of
any kind (scientific; administrative, educational, social, cultural, sports or
religious) or for giving a performance;
(v) a person travelling
for business purposes; and
(vi) a person arriving
in the course of a: ea cruise whose stay in Pakistan exceeds twenty lour hours;
(m) "Vessel"
includes aircraft but does riot include a vessel travelling solely between
ports or places in Pakistan.
3. Registration,
officer: (1) The Central
Government may appoint. Registration Officer for the purposes of1hese rules for
such areas as it thinks fit:
(2) A Registration
Officer may, with the approval of the Central Government, authorise in writing
any authority to perform any or all his functions under these rules.
4: Passengers on vessels
to report arrival in Pakistan. Every foreigner who arrives in Pakistan on board any vessel
shall on being required so, to do by, or on behalf of the master of vessel,
furnish in writing a true statement of the particulars specified in Form ‘A’.
5. Report by foreigners
of arrival in and departure from Pakistan by land: Every foreigner Who enters or leaves
Pakistan by land shall on being required so to do by the Registration Officer
of the place or arrival or,departure, as the case may be, furnish to him in
writing a true statement of the particulars specified in Form 'A'.
6. Report by foreign of
his arrival in Pakistan: '(1)
Every foreigner entering Pakistan shall, subject to sub‑rule (2), present in
person to the appropriate Registration Officer prescribed by rule 7 a report in
Farm 'B' (hereinafter referred to as a registration report) of his arrival in
Pakistan.
(2) Every registration
report shall be made in writing in the English language and in duplicate, shall
contain a true statement of the foreigners intended address in Pakistan and of
all the other particular specified in Form 'B' and shall have affixed to it a
photograph of the foreigner which shall be covers stamped with the stamp of the
Registration Officer on both parts of the report:
Provided that a
Pardanashin woman who is accompanied by a male companion may present the
registration report through her male companion and may not affix a photograph
to the report:
Provided further that in
the case of a foreigner whose occupation is such as to necessitate frequent
travelling and is not likely to return within a reasonable time to the district
in which he is at any time living, the office of the Registration Officer of
the district in which he first registers upon his‑arrival‑in Pakistan may be
given as, and shall be deemed to be his address in Pakistan.
(3) Copies of Form 'B'
shall be supplied by the Pakistani Visa issuing authority at the time of the
grant of Visa or by the Registration Officer in Pakistan.
7. Procedure for
registration: The Registration
report shall be presented, by a foreigner who enters Pakistan on board a vessel
or by land, within thirty days of his arrival, at such time and place and to
such authority as may be appointed by the Registration Officer of the port or
other place of arrival:
Provided that any
foreigner who enters Pakistan in the course of a continuous journey lay railway
shall present a registration report to the Registration Officer of the place of
arrival.
(2) The Registration
Officer or other authority as aforesaid to whom the registration report is
presented shall issue to the foreigner shall thereafter comply with the
conditions set out in that Form.
(3) Every foreigner
presenting a registration report shall furnish to the Registration Officer such
information may be in his possession for the purpose of satisfying the said
officer as to the accuracy of the particulars specified therein and shall on
being required so to do, sign the registration report in the presence of the
said officer and shall there upon be entitled to receive from the said officer
a certificate of Registration on Part II of Form 'B'
Provided that a
Pardanashin woman whose passport or other documents of identification do not,
in the opinion of the Registration Officer, provided adequate proof of
identity, shall be required to furnish to the Registration Officer, within such
period of presenting her registration report as such officer may fix, four
complete sets of her finger‑impressions, one of which shall be made on Part II
of Form 'B'. The finger‑impression shall be made in the presence of the
Registration Officer and each set shall be attested by him.
8. Period of validity of
certificate of Registration: If the Registration Officer is satisfied that any foreigner
entering Pakistan is a bona fide tourist and the period of his stay in Pakistan
will not exceed thirty days he may endorse on his passport the word 'Tourist"
and record therein the date of expiry of the validity of the said endorsement:
Provided that if the
tourist, after his entry in Pakistan, decides to extend his stay in Pakistan
beyond thirty days, he shall, before the expiry of the said period of thirty
days, apply to any Registration Officer in Pakistan for registration and the
Registration Officer may, on sufficient cause being shown by on tourist,
register him in Form 'B', subject to the condition that is no case shall the
validity of such registration be so expressed as to extend the period of the
tourist's stay in Pakistan beyond three months after the date on which he
entered Pakistan.
(2) If the Registration
Officer is satisfied that any foreigner entering Pakistan is bona fide tourist
and the period of his stay in Pakistan will be more than thirty days but less
than three months, he may register him in Form 'B' and record therein the fact
of the foreigner being a tourist and also the date of expiry of the validity of
the certificate Registrations:
Provided that, if the
certificate of Registration of the tourist is expressed to be valid for a
period of less than three months, the period of validity of such certificate
may, on sufficient cause being shown by the tourist, be extended by any Registration
Officer, subject to the condition that in no case shall the validity be so
extended three months after the date on which the tourist entered Pakistan.
(3) Where a tourist
entered in Pakistan on the authority of a tourist visa issued to him under the
Passport Rules, 1955, the validity of the Certificate of Registration shall be
coextensive with the validity of the said transit visa.
(4) Any Registration
Office may at any time cancel the endorsement on the passport of a tourist.
(5) Any tourist who is
in Pakistan after the date of the expiry of the validity of the endorsement on
his passport, or of his certificate of Registration, shall cease to be a
tourist within the meaning of these rules.
(6) The certificate of
registration issued in respect of any foreigner other than a tourist shall be
valid for so long as the foreigner does not depart from Pakistan].
9. Production of proof
of identity: (1) Every
foreigner shall, within twenty‑four hours of demand being made of him by any
Registration Officer, Magistrate or Police officer not below the rank of head
constable, produce at such place as may be specified, his passport and such
other proof of his indentity as may be required for any purpose connected with
the enforcement of this rule:
Provided that the said
Registration Officer, Magistrate of Police officer may, on sufficient cause
being shown, extend the aforesaid period of twenty‑four hours to such period
as, in the circumstances, may be necessary for the production of the said
passport or other proof of identity:
(2) Every foreigner
entering Pakistan shall, on demand being made of him by the Registration
Officer, deliver his passport or other proof of identity to that Officer and
shall thereafter attend at such time and place as the Registration Officer may
direct for the purpose of receiving back his passport.
(3) Wherein pursuance of
sub‑rule (2) a foreigner surrenders his passport or other proof of identity, he
shall be entitled to receive a receipt for it from the. Registration Officer.
10. Production of
certificate of registration:Every registered foreigner shall, within twenty‑four hours of
demand being made of him by any Registration Officer, Magistrate or Police
officer not below the rank of Head Constable, produce or cause to be produced
his certificate of Registration for the inspection of such Registration
officer, Magistrate or Police Officer:
Provided that the
Registration Officer, Magistrate or Police officer may on sufficient cause
being shown, extend the aforesaid period of twenty‑four hours to such period
as, In the circumstances, may be reasonable necessary for the production of the
said certificate:
Provided further that if
the Registration Officer, Magistrate or Police officer not below the rank of
Sub‑Inspector is of the opinion that the passport or other documents of
identification produced by a pardanashin woman do not furnish adequate proof of
identity and if the Registration Certificate does not bear the finger‑impressions
required by the proviso to sub-rule (3) of Rule 7, the Registration Officer,
Magistrate or Police officer, may require her to furnish, within such period as
such officer, Magistrate or Police officer may fix, four complete sets of her
finger‑impressions one of which shall be made on the Registration Certificate.
The finger‑impressions shall be made in the presence of the Officer, Magistrate
or Police officer and shall be attended by him:
Provided further that,
suit if, the Registration Certificate bears a set of finger‑impressions, the
Registration Officer Magistrate or Police officer may in order to satisfy
himself of the genuineness of the finger‑impressions require her to furnish a
further set of finger‑impressions for comparison.
11. Report of temporary
absence from registered address: (1) If at any time a foreigner is absent from his registered
address for seven days or more, he shall report to the Registration Officer of
the district in which his registered address is situated his current address
and every subsequent change of address including his return to his registered
address.
(2) Every foreigner who
stays or intends to stay for a period of seven days or more at place in any
district other than the district in which his registered address is situated,
shall report his, presence in that other district to the Registration Officer
of that district within twenty-four hours of his arrival in that
district.
(3) The requirements of
sub‑rules.(1) and (2) shall be deemed to have been fulfilled if the foreigner
concerned:
(i) makes a report in
writing to the Registration Officer of the district where his registered
address is situated seven days in advance of leaving the district mentioning
his insanitary; or
(ii) reports in Form `D'
in accordance with the' provisions of rule 15 furnishing on it the requisite
informations about the itinerary; or
(iii) obtains a travel
permit under sub‑rule (1) of rule 16 from the Registration Officer of the
district in which his registered address is situated:
Provided that if any
change itinerary is made intimation shall be sent to the Registered Office;
or
(iv) report arrival
immediately to the Registration Officer of the district of his arrival.
(4) (a) The report
prescribed by sub‑rules (1) and (2) may be made by a foreigner to the Registration
Officer personally or through an agent or through postal communication.
(b) A report prescribed
by sub‑rule (3) may be made by a foreigner to the Registration Officer
personally or through an agent.
12. Report of change of
registered address:Every foreigner who is
about to change his registered address shall furnish to the Registration
Officer of the district in which his registered address is situated particular
of his new address and the date of the change, of the Registration Officer
shall record the new address in his Certificate of Registration.
(2) A foreigner shall be
deemed to have, changed his registered address:-
(a) If he departs from
Pakistan;
(b) if he changes his
residence from one place to another place in Pakistan; or
(c) if, having no
residence, he leaves his registered address knowing that he is not thereafter
to return thereto within three months of leaving it.
Provided that clause (e)
of this sub‑rule shall not apply in any case in which in accordance with the
second proviso to sub‑rule (2) of rule 6 the foreigner's registered address is
the Officer of the Registration Officer of the district in which he first
registered upon his arrival in Pakistan.
13. Report of changes
other than of address:Without
prejudice to the provisions of rules 11 and 12, every foreigner shall furnish
to the Registration Officer of the District in which his registered address is
situated particulars of any circumstances affecting in any manner the accuracy
of the particulars recorded in his Certificate of Registration within fourteen
days after the circumstances has occurred and generally shall be supply to the
Registration Officer all such information as may be necessary for maintaining
the accuracy of the certificate.
14. Omitted.
14‑A. Saving of
tourists: Nothing in rules
6, 7, 11, 12 and 13 shall apply to a tourist for so long as the period of
validity of the endorsement on his passport made under sub‑rule (1) of rule 1
has not expired.
(2) Nothing in rules 11,
12 and 13 apply to any tourist other than one mentioned in subrule (1) for so
long as the period of validity of the certificate of registration has not
expired.
Provided that any
Registration Officer may, in relation to any tourist, at any time cancel the
period of validity of the endorsement on his passport or of his Certificate of
Registration and thereupon the tourist shall cease to be a tourist within the
meaning of these rules.
15. Report to be made
and by hotel keeper:(1) Every keeper of a
hotel shall require every foreigner for whom accommodation is provided in the
hotel‑‑
(a) on arrival at the
hotel to furnish his particulars necessary for the completion of Form 'D';
(b) to sign the register
maintained by the keeper of the hotel in which the full particulars of the
foreigners as entered in Form 'D' shall have been previously copied out by the
keeper of the hotel; and
(c) at the time of his
departure from such hotel to record, or furnish the particulars necessary for
recording in the said register, the date and time of his departure and the
address to which he is proceeding.
(2) The register
prescribed by sub‑rule (1) shall at all times be made available for inspection,
on the demand of any Registration Officer, Magistrate or Police officer not
below the rank of head constable.
(3) Every foreigner for
whom accommodation is provided in a hotel shall‑‑
(a) on his arrival
at such hotel‑
(i) furnish the
particulars necessary for the completion of Form D'; and
(b) sign the
register maintained by the keeper of the hotel in which the full particulars of
the foreigner as entered in Form ‘D’ shall have been previously copied out
try the hotel keeper
(ii) at the time of
his departure from such hotel record or furnish
the particular: necessary for recording, in the said register the
date and time of his departure and the address to which he is
proceeding.
(4) Every particular
which is required by this rule to be recorded in the said register or
inForm `D' shall be recorded by the keeper of the hotel‑‑
(a) if the foreigner
understands the Englishlanguage in the English language; and
(b) otherwise, in a
Pakistani language.
(5) If a foreigner does
not understand the English language or a Pakistani language, it'shall be
the duty of the keeper of the hotel„ if so requested to explain to the
foreigner therequirement of this rule
(6) The keeper of
the hotel shall sign and date the Form 'D' duly completed by him and shah,
as soon as may be, but not more than twenty‑four hours after the arrival
of the foreigner transmit the Form to the Registration Officer.
(7) For the purposes of
this rule‑‑
(a) 'hotel' includes any
.boarding‑house, club, dak‑bungalow, rest house, sarai of other
premises of like nature;
(b) "keeper of
hotel" means the person having the management of a hotel
and includes any person authorised by him and competent, to perform
the duties of the keeper of the hotel under this rule.
(c) "sign"
includes, in respect of a foreigner who is unable to write, the making of
athumb‑impression or other mark by means of which he is accustomed to
attest document.
(8) Specimen conies of
Form 'D' maybe obtained on application, from any Registration Officer.
16 Report by foreigner
of his departure from Pakistan; (1) Every foreigner who Certificate of Registration
to the Registration Officer of the district in which his registered address is
situate and shall receive from the Registration Officer, a permit to travel to
the place from which he proposes to leave Pakistan.
(2) Every such permit
shall be duly stamped, signed and dated by the Registration Officer and shall‑‑
(i) certify the
surrender of the Registration Certificate by the foreigner and his intended
departure from the point where his journey in Pakistan as entered in the
permits ends;
(ii) specify the route
by which the foreigner will travel and the period of which the permit is valid;
and
(iii) be deemed for the
purposes of these rules to be a Certificate of Registration for as long as its
condition as the period and route for which it is expressed to be valid or not
contravened.
(3) The permits shall be
surrendered by the foreigner to the Registration Officer of the place from
which he departs from Pakistan.
3 (aa) Every tourist,
whose case is governed by sub‑rule (2) of rule 8 shall on his departure from
Pakistan surrender his certificate of Registration,‑‑‑
(a) if he depart on
board any vessel, to the Registration Officer of the port or place from which
the vessel, leaves Pakistan or to such authority as the said Officer may
appoint in this behalf; or
(b) if he depart from
Pakistan by land, to the Registration Officer of the place from which he
departs from Pakistan.
(4) Every tourist whose
case is governed by sub‑rule (2) of rule 8 shall on his departure from Pakistan
surrender his Certificate of the Registration‑‑‑
(a) if he departs on
board any vessel to the Registration Officer of the port or place from which
the vessel leaves Pakistan or to such authority as the said officer may appoint
in this behalf; or
(b) if he departs from Pakistan
by land, to the Registration Officer of the place from he departs from
Pakistan.
(5) Every foreign
passenger, other than a passenger, for whom a berth or seat has been engaged by
or on behalf of Government, who is about to depart from Pakistan on board any
vessel shall on the request of the master of such vessel furnish or cause to be
furnished in writing his full particulars in Form `A'.
17. Obligations of
masters of vessels, etc.:
(1) The master of any vessel arriving at or leaving any port or place in
Pakistan shall‑‑
(a) before any foreign
passenger disembarks, supply to the Registration Officer of the port or of
place of arrival in, or departure from, Pakistan Form 'A' duly filled in by
each foreigner together with a Passenger Manifest in Form 'E';
(b) require every
foreign passenger who is about to disembark in Pakistan to complete Form 'B'
and direct him to attend at such place and time as may be specified by the
Registration Officer;
(c) if so requested by
the Registration Officer, require any foreign passenger about to depart from
Pakistan to surrender his Certificate of Registration or travel permit and
deliver such certificate or permit together with Form 'A' and the Passenger
Manifest in Form 'E' required under sub‑rule (4) to the Registration Officer;
(d) if so required the
Registration Officer, furnish on arrival at the said port or place a true
statement in writing showing the name and nationality of every seaman, and at
the time of departing from such port or place take such steps as the
Registration Officer may specify to ascertain whether or not any such seaman as
aforesaid who is a foreigner is about to depart on board such vessel; and
(e) render to the
Registration Officer such assistance as he may reasonably require for carrying
out the purposes of the Act and these rules;
(2) Every particular,
other than the signature of a foreign passenger which is required by this rule
to be recorded in Form 'B' shall be recorded‑‑
(a) if the passenger is
able to write in the English language by the passenger and in the English
language;
(b) if the passenger is
unable to write in English language, by the master of the vessel and in the
English language or, where the master is unable to write in the language, in a
Pakistani language;
(3) If a foreign
passenger does not understand the English language, it shall be the duty of the
master of the vessel, if so requested, to explain or cause to be explained to
the foreign passenger the requirements of the rule and Form 'B'.
(4) The master or owner
of any vessel shall‑‑
(a) require any
foreigner who intends to embark on that vessel for the purpose of leaving
Pakistan to furnish in writing his full particulars in Form `A'.
(b) cause Form 'A' when
so completed to be delivered together with the schedule in Form 'E' to the
Registration Officer of the place of departure; and
(c) take steps to ensure
that no foreigner embarks until authorised so to do any Registration Officer.
(5) Form 'A' shall be
completed in the English language
Provided that in any
case in which there is no seaman on board a vessel who is able to write in the
English language, the Form may be completed in a Pakistani language.
(6) Form 'A' shall be
supplied to the foreign passengers by the master or owner of the vessel
carrying the passengers.
(7) Speciman copies of
Forms 'A', 'B' and 'E' may be obtained by the master or owner of a vessel
carrying passengers from any Registration Officer.
18. Duplicate
Certificate of Registration: (1) If any Certificate of Registration issued under these
rules is lost, destroyed, damaged or mutilated, the foreigner to whom it was
issued shall personally make to the Registration Officer of the district of his
registered address, a report in writing of the circumstances in which it was so
lost, destroyed, damaged or mutilated together with an application for the
issue of a duplicate copy of the Certificate of Registration:
Provided that, if only
the photograph of the foreigner affixed on his Registration Certificate is
lost, destroyed, damaged or mutilated and the entries against all the items in
the Certificate of Registration are intact, the foreigner shall together with
the aforesaid report submit two copies of a photograph of himself of passport
size, with the request that the said photograph may be affixed to his
Certificate of Registration.
(2) The fee for every
duplicate copy of the Certificate of Registration issued under subrule (1)
shall be five rupees but no fee shall be charged for the affixation of the
photograph under the proviso to the sub‑rule.
19. Repeal and Savings: (1) The Registration of Foreigner Rules,
1939, are hereby repealed.
(2) All action taken,
orders passed and directions issued under the Registration of Foreigners Rules,
1939, prior to the commencement of these rules shall be deemed to have been
taken, passed and issued under these rules.
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