Airport operational critical information infrastructure, including airfield lighting, operational control, access control, baggage handling, passenger-processing, surveillance and clock systems, is declared a protected system under the Information Technology Act, 2000. Access is confined to persons authorised in writing by Delhi International Airport Ltd, including designated employees, need-based service-provider or vendor personnel, and case-specific consultants, regulators, officials, auditors and stakeholders. The designation takes effect upon publication in the Official Gazette.

A registered KRA may apply to surrender its registration. Voluntary surrender of the certificate of registration is not effective merely upon filing the application; it becomes effective only when the Authority accepts the surrender. Acceptance is therefore a mandatory condition for completion of the registration-surrender process.

Certificate of registration of a KRA remains legally effective for the KRA without a fixed expiry period. Its validity ends only where the Authority suspends or cancels the certificate, or where the KRA surrenders it and the Authority accepts that surrender. Surrender alone does not terminate registration; Authority acceptance is required, while suspension or cancellation independently renders the certificate no longer valid.

Registration as a KYC Registration Agency is available to specified wholly owned subsidiaries and certain branches undertaking KRA-like activities, subject to the absence of conflicts of interest. Registration may be granted upon satisfaction of eligibility, compliance with applicable conditions and payment of the prescribed fee. Deficiencies must be communicated for rectification before refusal, and written submissions must be permitted. Registered KRAs may be subject to additional conditions for investor protection, market development and operational regulation, and registration may be withdrawn after a hearing.

KYC Registration Agency registration requires consideration of qualifications and work experience of the applicant, Principal Officer and Compliance Officer; adequate infrastructure; eligibility and net-worth compliance; and financial creditworthiness. Scrutiny also covers the fitness and propriety of the applicant and relevant personnel, prior certificate refusals involving the applicant or its Associates, and proceedings for breach of law involving the applicant or relevant personnel.

KYC Registration Agencies must appoint a Principal Officer and separate Compliance Officer based in the IFSC, meeting prescribed qualification and financial-services-market experience requirements. The Principal Officer requires at least ten years' experience and the Compliance Officer at least five years' experience. A Compliance Officer must immediately and independently report non-compliance to the Authority. Adequate IFSC-based manpower, commensurate with business activities, is also required.

KYC Registration Agency registration requires the entity and its Principal Officer, directors, key managerial personnel and controlling shareholders to remain fit and proper at all times. Fitness depends on fairness, integrity, financial integrity, reputation, character and honesty. Disqualifications include specified convictions, pending economic-offence proceedings, recovery proceedings, malfeasance, undischarged insolvency, regulatory restraints, financial unsoundness, wilful default and fugitive economic offender status. A person declared not fit and proper cannot apply for registration until satisfying the prescribed criteria.

Registration as a KYC Registration Agency requires an applicant to maintain net worth of at least USD 1 million at all times. Where the agency is established as a branch of an entity registered with SEBI, that entity must earmark and ringfence the prescribed minimum net worth for the branch.

Registration as a KYC Registration Agency requires an applicant to be established in an International Financial Services Centre as a company. An entity already registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India for similar activities may establish a wholly owned subsidiary or branch in the International Financial Services Centre.

Certificate of registration as a KYC Registration Agency requires an entity seeking registration to submit an application accompanied by the applicable application fees. Submission may be made electronically or by another permitted means and must follow the form and manner specified by the Authority.

Definitions for KYC Registration Agencies in the IFSC determine associate and control relationships, identify clients, regulated entities and registered agencies, and assign compliance and principal-officer responsibilities. Net Worth includes paid-up capital, eligible reserves, securities premium and profit-and-loss balances after prescribed deductions, while excluding specified revaluation, depreciation write-back and amalgamation reserves. Foreign Jurisdiction requires recognised securities-regulatory cooperation and exclusion from specified Financial Action Task Force deficiency categories. Undefined terms adopt meanings under applicable parent legislation and related laws.

KYC registration agency regulation for International Financial Services Centres bears the short title International Financial Services Centres Authority (KYC Registration Agency) Regulations, 2025. The framework is made under specified statutory powers and commences upon publication in the Official Gazette. Regulation 1 is confined to the title and commencement and does not prescribe eligibility, registration processes, operational obligations, or compliance requirements.

Appointments to Group A and Group B posts in the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal use direct recruitment, promotion, deputation, short-term contract and absorption according to each post. Registrar, Financial Advisor, Senior Accounts Officer and Accountant are deputation posts, while Legal Assistant is directly recruited. Deputy Registrar, Assistant Registrar and Assistant have prescribed promotion and deputation or absorption shares, with training and feeder-service requirements. Deputation eligibility generally requires an analogous post or specified regular service, relevant qualifications and experience, and carries prescribed tenure and age conditions.

Rule 7 preserves recruitment safeguards for Group 'A' and 'B' posts in the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal. Reservation, age-limit relaxation, and other concessions required for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, ex-servicemen, and other special categories remain unaffected where required under Central Government orders issued from time to time.

Relaxation of recruitment rules for Group 'A' and 'B' posts may be granted where considered necessary or expedient. It may apply to any provision for a specified class or category of persons, through a written order supported by recorded reasons and made in consultation with the Union Public Service Commission.

Appointment to the specified Group 'A' and 'B' posts is unavailable to a person who marries someone with a living spouse or who, while having a living spouse, marries another person. An exemption may be granted where the marriage is permissible under applicable personal law for both parties and other grounds support exemption.

Recruitment to Group 'A' and 'B' posts in the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal is governed by prescribed recruitment methods, age-limits, qualifications and related service matters. The corresponding entries in columns (5) to (13) of the Schedule determine the applicable eligibility and recruitment conditions.

Group 'A' and Group 'B' Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal recruitment posts are specified in the Schedule. Columns (2) to (4) set out the number of posts, their classification, and the corresponding Level in the Pay Matrix attached to those posts.

Application is limited to posts identified in column (1) of the annexed Schedule. The Schedule is the operative reference for determining posts covered by the recruitment rules, which apply to listed Group 'A' and Group 'B' posts of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal under the prescribed recruitment framework.

Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal, Group 'A' and 'B' Posts Recruitment Rules, 2026 regulate recruitment methods for Group 'A' and 'B' Tribunal posts. Made under the proviso to article 309 of the Constitution, the Rules take effect upon publication in the Official Gazette.