SOLOMON ISLANDS

THE PASSPORT
(AMENDMENT) ACT 1986

NO. 2 OF 1986

Passed by the National Parliament this twelfth day of June 1986.

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.

J M Tuhaika
Clerk to the National Parliament

Assented to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this second day of July 1986.

B Devesi 
Governor-General

Date of commencement: date of publication in Gazette.

AN ACT to amend the Passports Act 1978, so as to enable the issue of emergency certificates to foreign national in certain circumstances. 

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Passports (Amendment) Act 1986.

Amendment of section 2 of Act No. 15 of 1978

2. Section 2 of the Passports Act 1978 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) is hereby amended by inserting therein immediately after the definition of "appropriate form" the following new definition –

"emergency certificate" means a valid travel document issued pursuant to section 8A to a foreign national for the purpose of leaving Solomon Islands;"

Insertion of new section 8A.

3. The Principal Act is hereby amended by inserting therein immediately after section 8 the following new section –

"Emergency certificates.

8A (1) Where the passport officer is reasonably satisfied that the passport of a foreign national is lost, misplaced, damaged or stolen in Solomon Islands, or that the circumstances so require, he may where reasonably practicable, issue to such foreign national an emergency certificate for the purpose of leaving Solomon Islands.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 11, an emergency certificate issued pursuant to subsection (1), shall for the purposes of this Act be construed as a valid travel document issued by the Government of Solomon Islands to enable such foreign national to leave Solomon Islands.".

Amendment of section 14.

4. Subsection (1) of section 14 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting therein immediately after the word "passport" the words "or emergency certificate.".

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