Board of Visitors for Detained Persons

L.N. 251 of 2012

IMMIGRATION ACT

(CAP. 217)

Board of Visitors for Detained Persons

(Amendment) Regulations, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 36 of the

Immigration Act, the Minister for Home Affairs has made the

following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Board of Visitors

for Detained Persons (Amendment) Regulations, 2012, and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Board of

Visitors for Detained Persons (Amendment) Regulations, hereinafter

referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) The purpose of these regulations is to implement part of

the provisions of Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament

and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and

procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third

country nationals.

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a)

paragraph (g) thereof shall be renumbered as

paragraph (h); and

(b) immediately after paragraph (f) thereof, there shall

be added the following new paragraph

"(g) to monitor the proceedings relating

to the involuntary return of illegally staying

third country nationals in accordance with the

provisions of the Immigration Act and of the

Common Standards and Procedures for

Returning Illegally Staying Third Country

Nationals Regulations;".

In relation to the monitoring of involuntary returns,

references in the principal regulations to the "Head (Detention

Services)" or "Head" shall, mutatis mutandis, be construed as

references to the Principal Immigration Officer.

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