S.I. No. 36/2001 - Aliens (Visas) Order, 2001

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Aliens (Visas) Order, 2001.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of March, 2001.

2. (1) In this Order —

“alien” has the meaning assigned to it by the Aliens Order 1946 (

S.R. & O. No. 395 of 1946

);

“port” has the meaning assigned to it by the Aliens Order 1946 (

S.R. & O. No. 395 of 1946

).

(2) The Interpretation Acts, 1937 to 1997, apply to this Order.

3. 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 First Schedule to this Order shall not enter a port in the State unless he or she is the holder of a valid Irish transit visa.

4. The following are hereby designated as classes of persons not requiring Irish visas:-

(a) citizens of the states specified in the Second Schedule to this Order

(b) holders of valid diplomatic or official passports of the Slovak Republic

5. The Aliens (Visas) Order, 1999 (

S.I. No. 25 of 1999

), is hereby revoked.

FIRST SCHEDULE

States whose citizens require a transit visa

Afghanistan

Ghana

Albania

Iran

Bulgaria

Iraq

Cuba

Lebanon

Democratic Republic of Congo

Moldova

Ethiopia

Nigeria

Eritrea

Romania

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Somalia

(Serbia and Montenegro)

Sri Lanka

SECOND SCHEDULE

States whose citizens do not require an Irish visa

Andorra

Guatemala

Paraguay

Antigua & Barbuda

Guyana

Poland

Argentina

Honduras

Portugal

Australia

Hong Kong (Special

Saint Kitts & Nevis

Austria

Administrative Region)

Saint Lucia

Bahamas

Hungary

Saint Vincent & the

Barbados

Iceland

Grenadines

Belgium

Israel

San Marino

Belize

Italy

Seychelles

Bolivia

Jamaica

Singapore

Botswana

Japan

Slovenia

Brazil

Kiribati

Solomon Islands

Brunei

Latvia

South Africa

Canada

Lesotho

South Korea

Chile

Liechtenstein

Spain

Costa Rica

Lithuania

Swaziland

Croatia

Luxembourg

Sweden

Cyprus

Malawi

Switzerland

Czech Republic

Malaysia

Tonga

Denmark

Maldives

Trinidad & Tobago

Dominica

Malta

Tuvalu

El Salvador

Mauritius

United States of America

Estonia

Mexico

United Kingdom &

Fiji

Monaco

Colonies

Finland

Nauru

Uruguay

France

Netherlands

Vanuatu

Gambia

New Zealand

Vatican City

Germany

Nicaragua

Venezuela

Greece

Norway

Western Samoa

Grenada

Panama

Zimbabwe

Given under my official seal

This 13th day of February, 2001

John O'Donoghue

Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

This Order specifies the classes of persons who are required to have a transit visa and the classes of persons exempt from Irish Visa requirements. It exempts from the Visa requirement a number of classes of persons who had not been exempted under the Aliens (Visas) Order, 1999 and it also revokes that Order. The classes of persons previously not exempt are nationals of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Bolivia, Dominica, Fiji, Gambia, Guyana, Kiribati, Maldives, Mauritius, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu as well as holders of valid Slovak Republic Diplomatic and Official Passports.

I, John O'Donoghue, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 5

of the

Aliens Act, 1935

(No. 14 of 1935) as adapted by the Justice (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1997 (

S.I. No. 298 of 1997

), hereby order as follows