S.I. No. 301/1996 - Aliens (Amendment) (No. 5) Order, 1996

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Aliens (Amendment) (No. 5) Order, 1996.

(2) The Aliens Orders, 1946 to 1996, and this Order may be cited together as the Aliens Orders, 1946 to 1996, and shall be construed together as one Order.

(3) The

Interpretation Act, 1937

, (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

(4) This Order shall come into operation on the 8th day of October 1996.

2. In this Order "the principal Order" means the Aliens Order 1946 (S.R. 80. No. 395 of 1946).

3. The principal Order is hereby amended by the substitution for Article 5A (inserted by the Aliens (Amendment) Order, 1988) the following article

"5A. An alien coming from a place outside the State other than Great Britain or Northern Ireland who is a citizen of a State specified in the schedule to this Article shall not enter a port in the State unless he or she is the holder of a valid Irish transit visa.

Schedule

States whose citizens require transit visas

Afghanistan

Nigeria

Albania

Romania

Bulgaria

Lebanon

Cuba

Moldova

Ethiopia

the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Eritrea

(Serbia and Montenegro)

Ghana

Somalia

Iraq

Sri Lanka

Iran

Zaire".

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 8th day of

October, 1996.

________________

Nora Owen, T.D.,

MINISTER FOR JUSTICE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order was made for the purpose of updating the transit visa schedule.

S.I. No. 301 of 1996.

ALIENS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 5) ORDER, 1996

I, Nora Owen, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

Section 5

of the

Aliens Act, 1935

(No. 14 of 1935), hereby order as follows