S.I. No. 335/2024 - Immigration Act 2004 (Visas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Immigration Act 2004 (Visas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 10 July 2024.

2. The

Immigration Act 2004

(Visas) Order (

S.I. No. 473 of 2014

) is amended –

(a) by the substitution of the following for Schedule 1

“SCHEDULE 1

Article 3(a)

Andorra

Hong Kong (SAR)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Antigua and Barbuda

Hungary

Samoa

Argentina

Iceland

San Marino

Australia

Israel

Seychelles

Austria

Italy

Singapore

Bahamas

Japan

Slovakia

Barbados

Kiribati

Slovenia

Belgium

Latvia

Solomon Islands

Belize

Lesotho

South Korea

Brazil

Liechtenstein

Spain

Brunei Darussalam

Lithuania

Sweden

Bulgaria

Luxembourg

Switzerland

Canada

Macau (SAR)

Taiwan

Chile

Malaysia

Tonga

Costa Rica

Maldives

Trinidad and Tobago

Croatia

Malta

Tuvalu

Cyprus

Mexico

Ukraine

Czech Republic

Monaco

United Arab Emirates

Denmark

Nauru

United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies

El Salvador

Netherlands

United States of America

Estonia

New Zealand

Uruguay

Eswatini

Nicaragua

Vatican City

Fiji

Norway

Finland

Panama

France

Paraguay

Germany

Poland

Greece

Portugal

Grenada

Romania

Guatemala

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Guyana

Saint Lucia

”,

(b) in Schedule 2, by the insertion of “South Africa” after “Qatar”,

and

(c) by the substitution of the following for Schedule 5

“SCHEDULE 5

Article 4

Afghanistan

Ethiopia

Nigeria

Albania

Georgia

Somalia

Bolivia

Ghana

South Africa

Botswana

Honduras

Sri Lanka

Cuba

Iran

Vanuatu

Democratic Republic of Congo

Iraq

Zimbabwe

Dominica

Lebanon

Eritrea

Moldova

”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

4 July, 2024.

HELEN MCENTEE,

Minister for Justice.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

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

)

This Order amends the

Immigration Act 2004

(Visas) Order 2014. The Order imposes a requirement for nationals of Botswana and South Africa both to obtain a visa in order to be granted authorisation to land in the State, as well as to obtain a transit visa in order to be granted authorisation to arrive at a port in the State for purposes of passing through the port in order to travel to another state.

This Order also allows for an exception to the visa requirement for South African nationals who are holders of a diplomatic passport and holders of a service passport or public affairs passport who arrive in the State in the company of a Minister of the Government where that Minister is on an official visit.

This Order also replaces Schedules 1 and 5 for the sake of sake of accessibility.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

9

th July,

2024.

I, HELEN MCENTEE, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 17

of the

Immigration Act 2004

(No. 1 of 2004) (as adapted by the Justice and Equality (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (

S.I. No. 452 of 2020

)), hereby order as follows