Refugee Act 1996
Number 17 of 1996
REFUGEE ACT 1996 (Repealed)
REVISED
Updated to 20 April 2015
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of Refugee Act 1996. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
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Number 17 of 1996
REFUGEE ACT 1996 (Repealed)
REVISED
Updated to 20 April 2015
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Refugee Applications Commissioner
Refugee Appeal Board
Geneva Convention
Dublin Convention
Number 17 of 1996
REFUGEE ACT 1996 (Repealed)
REVISED
Updated to 20 April 2015
AN ACT TO GIVE EFFECT TO THE CONVENTION RELATING TO THE STATUS OF REFUGEES DONE AT GENEVA ON THE 28TH DAY OF JULY, 1951, THE PROTOCOL RELATING TO THE STATUS OF REFUGEES DONE AT NEW YORK ON THE 31ST DAY OF JANUARY, 1967, AND THE CONVENTION DETERMINING THE STATE RESPONSIBLE FOR EXAMINING APPLICATIONS FOR ASYLUM LODGED IN ONE OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES DONE AT DUBLIN ON THE 15TH DAY OF JUNE, 1990, TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A PERSON TO BE KNOWN AS THE REFUGEE APPLICATIONS COMMISSIONER AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BOARD TO BE KNOWN AS THE REFUGEE APPEAL BOARD AND TO PROVIDE FOR MATTERS RELATED TO THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [26th June, 1996]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Editorial Notes:
E1
European Union (Dublin System) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 525 of 2014), signed 25.11.2014, support the operation in the State of Regulation (EU) No. 604/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person.
E2
Functions in relation to Act transferred from Health Service Executive to Child and Family Agency (1.01.2014) by Child and Family Agency Act 2013 (40/2013), s. 82 and sch. 1, S.I. No. 502 of 2014.
E3
Provision for retention and deletion of passenger data in respect of offence under Act made (1.11.2011) by European Communities (Communication of Passenger Data) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 597 of 2011), in effect as per reg. 1(2).
E4
European Communities (Eligibility for Protection) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 518 of 20106), as amended by S.I. No. 426 of 2013, give effect (10.10.2006) to Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted.
E5
Functions in relation to Act transferred to Health Service Executive and references to functional areas construed (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), ss. 59, 67 and sch. 3 item 22, S.I. No. 887 of 2004.
E6
Act referred to in definition of health and personal social services (23.12.2004) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), s. 2 and sch. 1, S.I. No. 886 of 2004.