Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Act, 2000
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Amendment of Immigration Act, 1999. |
10.—The Immigration Act, 1999 , is hereby amended— | |
(a) in section 3— | ||
(i) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1): | ||
“(1A) A person the subject of a deportation order under this section may be detained in accordance with the provisions of this Act for the purpose of ensuring his or her deportation from the State.”, | ||
and | ||
(ii) in subsection (9), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a): | ||
“(a) (i) Subject to paragraph (b), where the Minister has made a deportation order under this section, the notice under subsection (3)(b)(ii) may require the person the subject of the deportation order to do any one or more of the following for the purpose of ensuring his or her deportation from the State: | ||
(I) present himself or herself to such member of the Garda Síochána or immigration officer at such date, time and place as may be specified in the notice; | ||
(II) produce any travel document, passport, travel ticket or other document in his or her possession required for the purpose of such deportation to such member of the Garda Síochána or immigration officer at such date, time and place as may be specified in the notice; | ||
(III) co-operate in any way necessary to enable a member of the Garda Síochána or immigration officer to obtain a travel document, passport, travel ticket or other document required for the purpose of such deportation; | ||
(IV) reside or remain in a particular district or place in the State pending removal from the State; | ||
(V) report to a specified Garda Síochána station or immigration officer at specified intervals pending removal from the State; | ||
(VI) notify such member of the Garda Síochána or immigration officer as may be specified in the notice as soon as possible of any change of address. | ||
(ii) Where the notice under subsection (3)(b)(ii) contains a requirement to do an act specified in subparagraph (i), a member of the Garda Síochána or immigration officer may, if he or she considers it necessary for the purpose of ensuring the deportation of the person concerned from the State, require the person in writing to do any one or more of the acts specified in subparagraph (i), and any such further requirement shall have effect as if it were a requirement in a notice under subsection (3)(b)(ii). | ||
(iii) A further requirement under subparagraph (ii) shall, where necessary and possible, be given to the person concerned in a language that he or she understands.”, | ||
(b) in section 5, by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1): | ||
“(1) Where an immigration officer or a member of the Garda Síochána, with reasonable cause suspects that a person against whom a deportation order is in force— | ||
(a) has failed to comply with any provision of the order or with a requirement in a notice under section 3(3)(b)(ii), | ||
(b) intends to leave the State and enter another state without lawful authority, | ||
(c) has destroyed his or her identity documents or is in possession of forged identity documents, or | ||
(d) intends to avoid removal from the State, | ||
he or she may arrest him or her without warrant and detain him or her in a prescribed place.”, | ||
and | ||
(c) in section 6— | ||
(i) by the substitution in paragraph (b) for “to the Minister” of “to the Registration Officer pursuant to Article 11 of the Aliens Order, 1946 ( S.R. & O., No. 395 of 1946 ), or to the Refugee Applications Commissioner pursuant to section 9 (4A) of the Refugee Act, 1996 , as the case may be”, and | ||
(ii) by the insertion of the following subsection: | ||
“(2) Where a notice under this Act has been sent to a person in accordance with paragraph (b) of the foregoing subsection, the notice shall be deemed to have been duly served on or given to the person on the third day after the day on which it was so sent.”. |