SOLOMON ISLANDS

THE PASSPORTS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1985

(No. 3 of 1985)

Passed by the National Parliament this twenty-first day of August 1985.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill.

JM Tuhaika
Clerk to the National Parliament

Assented to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this twenty-sixth day of August 1985.

B Devesi 
Governor-General

Date of commencement: see section 1.

AN ACT to amend the Passports Act 1978, so as to enable the issue of diplomatic or official passports to diplomatic personnel and persons holding high public offices.

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

1. Short title and commencement 
2. Insertion of new section in Act No. 15 of 1978.

Short title and commencement.

1. This Act may be cited as the Passports (Amendment) Act 1985 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may by notice appoint.

Insertion of new section in Act No. 15 of 1978.

2. The Passports Act 1978 is hereby amended by inserting therein immediately after section 2 the following new section -

"Classification of passports.

2A. (1) From and after the commencement of this Act, passports issued to citizens of passports Solomon Islands shall be classified as –

(a) diplomatic passports;

(b) official passports; or

(c) ordinary passports.

(2) The holder of an ordinary passport may, by virtue of the office he holds be eligible to possess one of the passports referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) of sub-section (1).

(3) For the purpose of obtaining a diplomatic or official passport, a person referred to in subsection (2) may, make application to the passport officer in the appropriate form with the recommendation of the Minister responsible for Foreign Affairs.

(4) The Minister may, by regulation prescribe the persons entitled to diplomatic or official passports; the conditions of issue, use, renewal and replacement of such passports.

(5) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that all passports issued prior to the commencement of this Act shall remain valid from the date of issue until the date of expiration and shall from the date of commencement of this Act be construed as ordinary passports.".

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