Section 275:
Refund of passage money and deposits.
(1) Every pilgrim prevented from embarking
under section 271, or removed from the ship under section 272, or otherwise prevented from
proceeding shall be entitled to the refund of any passage money which he may have paid, and of any
deposit which he may have made under section 273.
(2) Any pilgrim who, within one year of his sailing from India, satisfies the Indian consular
officer at Jeddah that he intends to return to India by a route other than the route by which he came
from India, shall be entitled to a refund of any deposit made by him under section 273, or, if he is in
possession of a return ticket, to a refund of half the passage money paid by him.
(3) Where any pilgrim dies in the Hedjaz or on the voyage thereto, any person nominated by him
in this behalf in writing in the prescribed manner, or, if no person has been so nominated, the legal
representative of the pilgrim, shall be entitled to a refund of any deposit made by the pilgrim under
section 273, or, if the pilgrim was in possession of a return ticket, to a refund of half the passage
money paid by him.
(4) Where any pilgrim fails to return to India from the Hedjaz within one year of his sailing from
India, or returns to India by a route other than the route by which he came from India, he or any
person nominated by him in this behalf in writing in the prescribed manner shall be entitled to a
refund of any deposit made by such pilgrim under section 273, or, if such pilgrim was in possession of
a return ticket, to a refund of half the passage money paid by such pilgrim, except where such deposit
or passage money has already been refunded under this section.
(5) Refunds under this section of deposits shall be subject to such conditions and of passage
money to such deductions and conditions as may be prescribed.