Act Number: 13

Act Name: The Indian Antarctic Act, 2022

Year: 2022

Enactment Date: 2022-08-06

Long Title: An Act to provide for the national measures for protecting the Antarctic environment and dependent and associated ecosystems and to give effect to the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources and to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Earth Sciences

Department:

Section 6: Permit for vessel and aircraft entering Antarctica.
    No vessel or aircraft registered in India shall enter or remain in Antarctica without a permit or the written authorisation of another Party to the Protocol:
     Provided that no permit shall be required in the case of a vessel travelling through, on or above the high seas, to an immediate destination outside Antarctica:
     Provided further that no permit shall be required in respect of an aircraft travelling to an immediate destination outside Antarctica.
    
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