Status of Long-term Residents (Third Country Nationals)

L.N. 366 of 2015

IMMIGRATION ACT

(CAP. 217)

Status of Long-term Residents (Third Country Nationals)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2015

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 4A and 36 of the

Immigration Act, the Minister for Home Affairs and National

Security has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Status of Long-term Citation.

Residents (Third Country Nationals) (Amendment) Regulations,

2015, and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with

the Status of Long-term Residents (Third Country Nationals) S.L. 217.05.

Regulations hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

Regulation 5 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 5 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) thereof, for the

words "for each member of the family;" there shall be

substituted the words "for each member of the family:" and

immediately thereafter there shall be added the following new

proviso

"Provided that benefits or assistance

payable under the Social Security Act or any

other national legislation, which the third

country national is entitled to claim as special

assistance in order to meet exceptional,

individually determined essential living costs,

tax refunds granted on the basis of his income,

or other income-support measures, shall be

considered as part of his stable resources;"; and

(b) in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3) thereof, for

the words "at least seventy five percent" there shall be

substituted the words "at least sixty-five percent".

In sub-regulation (5) of regulation 7 of the principal Amends

regulations for the words "long-term resident status." there shall be regulation

the principal

substituted the words "long-term resident status:" and immediately regulations.

thereafter there shall be added the following new proviso

"Provided that where the conditions concerning stable

resources referred to in regulation 5 are not met by the third

country national, the Director shall consider all relevant

circumstances and if there are justified reasons to do so, the

Director shall accept the relative amount declared by the said

third country national as satisfying the conditions stipulated

therein.".

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