Regulation 2 - Definitions - Passenger Name Record Information Regulations, 2022

2. Definitions .- (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) Act means the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) ; (b) aircraft operator means a person or organization or enterprise engaged in or offering to engage in the operation of aircraft other than,- (i) a State aircraft as defined in the Aircraft Rules, 1937; or (ii) an aircraft, which is used for the transportation of passengers or goods by air, and specifically excluded for the purposes of these regulations by an order of the Board; to, from, or through India; (c) authorized agent includes a person who is authorized by, or on behalf of such aircraft operator to undertake all acts connected with the entry and clearance of the operator's aircraft, crew, passengers, cargo, mail, baggage (including unaccompanied baggage) or stores; (d) crew member means a person assigned on duty onboard an aircraft; (e) Departure Control System means the system, containing check-in information such as seat number and baggage information, used to check passengers onto flights; (f) international flight means a flight,- (i) from a place within India to a place outside India; or (ii) from a place outside India to a place within India; (g) National Customs Targeting Centre-Passenger means National Customs Targeting Centre-Passenger referred to under regulation 3; (h) passenger includes any person, other than crew member, in transfer or transit, carried or to be carried, in an aircraft on an international flight, with the consent, such consent being manifested by that person's registration in the passengers list, of the aircraft operator; (i) reservation system means the aircraft operator's internal system, in which passenger name record information are collected for the purpose of reservations; (j) time of departure or departure time means the time of take-off from the last point of embarkation of persons or goods before the aircraft arrives in India or the time of take-off from India, as the case may be, in the case of an aircraft which carries persons or goods; (2) The words and expressions used herein and not defined in these regulations but defined in the Act shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.