The Global Human Rights Sanctions (Overseas Territories) Order 2020

10.  For regulation 17 (immigration) substitute—

“17.— (1) A person who is designated from time to time by the Secretary of State under regulation 5 (as it has effect in the United Kingdom) for the purposes of regulation 17 (as it has effect in the United Kingdom) must not enter or remain in the Territory.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a person if the application of that paragraph to that person would be contrary to the United Kingdom’s obligations under—

(a) the European Convention on Human Rights, or

(b) the Refugee Convention.

(3) Paragraph (1) is subject to regulation 24 (immigration directions).

(4) In this regulation—

“the European Convention on Human Rights” means the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms done at Rome on 4 November 1950 and the Protocols to the Convention(1);

“the Refugee Convention” means the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28 July 1951 and the Protocol to the Convention(2).”

(1)

ETS Numbers 005, 009, 046, 114, 117, 177, 187 and CETS Numbers 194, 213 and 214.

(2)

United Nations Treaty Series, vol. 189, p. 137 and vol. 606, p. 267.