Regulation 5 - Passenger manifest - Export Manifest (Aircraft) Regulations, 1976

5. Passenger manifest. - 2 [(1) (a) The pre check-in passenger manifest shall be delivered twelve hours before the departure of the flight. (b) The final passenger manifest shall be delivered fifteen minutes before leaving or taking- off from the port of embarkation in India.] 2 [(2) The manifests shall be transmitted electronically to the Indian Customs in flat file format or in United Nations/ Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport Passenger List Advance Passenger Information (UN/EDIFACT PAXLST API) message format as per Annexure.] (3) Where the manifest cannot be delivered electronically due to some unavoidable reason, the same may be delivered as acceptable to the concerned 1 [Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be] in accordance with the conditions prescribed in the procedure. (4) In case of any amendment to the manifest, the same shall be transmitted to the Indian Customs as soon as such amendments are made and before the departure of the flight. . ---------------- Notes:- 1. Substituted vide Not. 56/2014 - Dated 6-8-2014 2. Substituted vide Not. 107/2016-Cus. (N.T.), Dated 11-8-2016.