REPUBLIC OF NAURU

Refugees Convention (Amendment) Act 2015
No. 18 of 2015

An Act to amend the Refugees Convention Act 2012

Certified: 14 August 2015

Table of Contents

1 SHORT TITLE 
2 COMMENCEMENT 
3 AMENDMENT OF SECTION 43(3) 
4 Insert new section 43(5) 

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Enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:

1	Short title

This Act may be cited as the Refugees Convention (Amendment) Act 2015.

2	Commencement

This Act commences upon certification by the Speaker. 

3	Amendment of section 43(3)

 Omit

 The figure “28”

 Substitute

 The figure “42”

4	Insert new section 43(5)

The Supreme Court may by Order, through the Registrar or a Judge, extend the period in subsection (3) as may be considered appropriate if:

(a)	an application for the Order has been made in writing to the Supreme Court specifying that the appellant considers it necessary in the interest of the administration of justice to make that Order; and

(b)	the Supreme Court is satisfied that it is necessary in the interests of the administration of justice to make that Order.