[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART -II,
SECTION-3, SUB-SECTION (i)]
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
(CENTRAL BOARD OF EXCISE AND CUSTOMS)
Notification No. 108/ 2016-Customs (N.T.)
New Delhi, the11th August, 2016
G.S.R. ... (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 157
of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes
the following regulations further to amend the Import Manifest (Aircraft) Regulations, 1976,
namely: -
1. (1) These Regulations may be called the Import Manifest (Aircraft) Amendment
Regulations, 2016.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the e-gazette of India.
2. In the Import Manifest (Aircraft) Regulations, 1976 (hereinafter referred to as the said
regulations), in regulation 5, -
(a) for sub-regulation (1), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
“(1) The passenger manifest shall be delivered within fifteen minutes of the closure and
departure of the flights from the port of embarkation outside India.”;
(b) for sub-regulation (2), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
“(2) The manifest shall be transmitted electronically to the Indian Customs either 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.”;
(c) in sub-regulation (3), after the word “concerned”, the following words shall be inserted,
namely:-
“Principal Commissioner of Customs or”.
3. In the said regulations, after regulation 5 and before FORM I, the following Annexure shall be
inserted, namely:-
“ANNEXURE
(i) Flat File Naming Convention:
The structure of file name will be as below:- 160401PJFKDELBY161.api where
160401 6 digit scheduled Arrival date in YYMMDD format
P/C P for PAX and C for Crew
JFK Departure Airport Code (Last Leg port)
DEL 3 character destination airport code (DEL=Delhi)
BY 2/3 digit IATA carrier code
161 3/4 digit IATA flight number
.api File extension
(ii) File structure Details:
One file structure will contain a complete manifest for Pax/Crew of a particular flight. Separate
file for Crew and PAX for each flight needs to be sent.
(iii) Field Details / Description:
S. No. Field Description Length Type Remarks
1. Flight Carrier Code 3 Character IATA Carrier
Code
2. Flight Number 4 Number 3/ 4 digit numeric
3. Flight Scheduled
Departure Date
8 Character YYYYMMDD
4. Flight Scheduled
Departure Time
4 Character HHMM
5. Flight Actual
Departure
Date
8 Character YYYYMMDD
6. Flight Actual
Departure Time
4 Character HHMM
7. Flight Scheduled
Arrival Date
8 Character YYYYMMDD
8. Flight Scheduled
Arrival Time
4 Character HHMM
9. Flight Last Leg Port
Outside India
3 Character IATA Airport Code
10. Flight First Arrival
Port in India
3 Character IATA Airport Code
11. Number of Crews in
flight
4 Number 0 for PAX file
12. Number of PAX in
flight
4 Number 0 for Crew file
13. PNR 10 Character Passenger Name
Record Locator
14. Pax/Crew
Serial Number
4 Number Running Serial
Number within the file
15. Pax/Crew
Status
1 Character T=Transit,
D=Disembarking
16. Pax/Crew Type 3 Character CRW=Crew
PAX=Passenger
17. Document Type 2 Character P=Passport, O=Others
18 # Document Number 20 Character Passport Number/ Unique ID
Number for other travel
documents
19 Document Expiry
Date
8 Character YYYYMMDD
20. Document Issue
Country
3 Character 3-char Country Code
21. Pax/Crew Name 100 Character As appears in Passport / other
travel document
22. Pax/Crew Date of
Birth
8 Character YYYYMMDD
23. Pax/Crew
Nationality
3 Character 3-char Country Code
24. Pax/Crew Gender 1 Character M/F
25. Pax/Crew Embark
Airport
3 Character IATA Airport Code
26. Pax/Crew
Disembark Airport
3 Character IATA Airport Code
27. Pax/Crew
Disembark Address
40 Character Address of PAX
at Disembarking
country (e.g. House / Flat No,
Street etc.)
28. Pax/Crew
Disembark City
35 Character Airport Name of
Disembarking
City
29. Pax/Crew
Disembark Postal
Code
9 Character Postal Code of
Disembark address
30 Pax/Crew
Disembark Country
3 Character 3-char country code of
disembarking country
31. Pax/Crew
Residential Country
code
3 Character 3-char country code
32. Subsequent Place /
Port of Call within
the Country
3 Character IATA Airport Code
33. Crew Other
Document
Code
2 Character Only in case of CREW, For
License code L
34. Crew Other
Document
Number
20 Character CREW License Number
35. Crew Other
Document
Expiry Date
8 Character Date of expiry of License in
YYYYMMDD
format
36. Crew Other
Document
3 Character 3-char country code where
license has been
Issue Country issued
37. Crew Type 3 Character 3-char CREW type as mentioned
in UN/EDIFACT
38. Pax/ Crew Home
Address
70 Character Address of Home place (e.g.
House/Flat No, Street name
and number etc.)
39. Pax/ Crew Home
City
70 Character Home city name
40. Pax/ Crew Home
State
70 Character Home State name
41. Pax/ Crew Home
Country
3 Character 3-char country code
42 Pax/ Crew Birth
Place
70 Character Address of Birthplace (e.g.
House/Flat No, Street name and
number etc.)
43. Pax/ Crew Birth
City
70 Character City name of birth place
44. Pax/ Crew Birth
State
70 Character Birth place State name
45. Pax/ Crew Birth
Country
3 Character 3-char country code of birth
address
46. Visa Number 15 Character Visa Number as in Travel
Document
47. Pax/Crew
Visa Issue Date
8 Character YYYYMMDD
48. Pax/Crew
Visa Issue Place
50 Character VISA issue place
49. EDIFACT
Version Number
10 Character Version Number of US/UN
EDIFACT
50. EDIFACT
Release Number
10 Character Release Number of US/UN
EDIFACT
51. Carrier Contact
Information
50 Character Name of the nodal officer of the
carrier to contact
52. Carrier Contact
Number
50 Character Phone numbers of the contact
person
53. Carrier Contact Fax 50 Character FAX numbers of the contact
person
#The passport number is not mandatory for some countries viz. currently for Nepal and
Bhutan and in those cases ‘O’(other) value to be mentioned in the document type and
Unique Document number be provided.
• Each data element should be separated by „|‟ (pipe line) in the record (Total 53 no. of „|‟ should
be there in each record)
• In case of value not available for a specific data element, null value (not space) should be given.
• Each record for PAX should be in a single line, no line separator is required.
Example of structure of file for PAX only
B Y | 1 6 1 | 2 0 16 0 4 0 1 | 1 0 1 0 | | | 2 0 16 0 4 0 2 | 0 7 4 5 | L H R | D E L | 0 | 1 6 0 | H K 2 5 6
L | 2 0 | D | P A X | P | A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | 1 0 0 4 0 1 | G B R | J O H N D S O N | 7 5 0 5 0 6 | G B
R | M | J F K | D E L | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | J M A R T I N | 9 1 1 1 2 7 4 6 8 8 2 3 | | |
(iv) For furnishing the information in United Nations/ Electronic Data Interchange for
Administration, Commerce and Transport Passenger List Advance Passenger Information
(UN/EDIFACT PAXLST API) message format, airlines/ carriers may refer WCO/IATA/ICAO
passenger list message (PAXLST) implementation guide. (www.wcoomd.org).”.
4. In the said regulations, for FORM-II, the following FORM shall be substituted, namely:-
“FORM II
(See regulation 3)
PASSENGER MANIFEST
Owner or Operator.............................................Marks of Nationality and Registration....................
Flight No. ............................... Date .......................................................................................
Point of embarkation..................................... Point of disembarkation........................................
(Place and Country) (Place and Country)
“I. Flight information: For use by owner
or operator only
For official use
only
a. airline carrier code and flight number
b. departure airport
c. scheduled departure date and time
d. actual departure date and time *
e. arrival airport
f. scheduled arrival date and time
g. subsequent port of call within the country
h. number of crew in flight
i. number of passengers in flight
II. Passenger information:
a. serial number in the manifest
b. status; whether transiting or disembarking
c. name of the passenger
d. gender
e. date of birth
f. nationality
g. address in the country of primary residence
h. place of birth
i. address of birth *
III. Journey information:
a. journey start airport
b. destination airport
c. passenger name record locator
d. address in India*
e. residence country code*
IV. Travel document information:
a. document type
b. document number
c. expiry date
d. country of issue
V. Crew related information
a. crew other document code*
b. crew other document number*
c. crew other document expiry date*
d. crew other document issue country*
e. crew type*
VI. Visa related information for foreigners
a. visa number *
b. visa issue date*
c. place of issue*
VII. Message related information
a. EDIFACT version number
b. EDIFACT release number
c. Carrier contact information
d. Carrier contact number
e. Carrier contact fax
Prepared by..............................Page................of.......................pages.”
*The data fields with (*) mark are not mandatory.
[F. No. 520/12/2009-CusVI]
(B. Konthoujam)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Note: The principal regulations were published in Part I, Section 3, Sub-section (i) of the Gazette
of India, Extraordinary, vide notification under G.S.R 1550 dated 23
rd
October, 1976 and were last
amended vide notification No. 74/2005-Customs (N.T.) dated the 30
th
August, 2005, vide number
G.S.R. 547(E) dated the 30
th
August, 2005.
