Emigration Act, 1983
6.Emigration check
posts.-
(1) Where the Central Government considers
that, with view to preventing or checking the contravention of the provisions of
this Act, it is necessary so to do, it may, by notification, set up such number
of emigration check posts at such places as may be specified.
The Central Government may, by general or
special order made in this behalf, appoint an officer of the Central Government
or of a State Government to be an officer in charge of an emigration check-post
set up under sub section (1).
An officer in charge of an emigration
check-post shall be subject to the general control and supervision of the Protector
of Emigrants within the local limits of whose jurisdiction that emigration
check-posts is situated