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Amendment of section 50A of Act of 2015
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9. Section 50A of the Act of 2015 is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):
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“(1) A person shall not be expelled or returned in any manner whatsoever to the frontier of a territory—
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(a) where, in the opinion of the Minister—
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(i) the life or freedom of the person would be threatened for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, or
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(ii) there is a risk that the person would be subjected to the death penalty, torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, or a serious and individual threat to his or her life or person by reason of indiscriminate violence in situations of international or internal armed conflict,
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or
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(b) where the Minister is of the opinion that such expulsion or return would be prohibited under any enactment or rule of law as a breach of the person’s fundamental rights.”.
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