Article 2

(1)

The Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) Order 2003^f1 shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In article 3A (Exemption from the requirement for a transit passenger to hold a transit visa):

(a)

in paragraph (1) (a), after “via the United Kingdom”, there shall be inserted “as part of a journey”;

(b)

for paragraph (1) (b), there shall be substituted:

“(b)

a valid airline ticket for travel via the United Kingdom as part of a journey from Canada or the United States of America to another country or territory, provided that the transit passenger does not seek to travel via the United Kingdom on a date more than six months from the date on which he last entered Canada or the United States of America with a valid visa for entry to that country or territory;”;

(c)

after paragraph (1)(h), there shall be inserted:

“(i)

a diplomatic or official passport issued by Vietnam.”; and

(d)

paragraph (2) is hereby revoked.

(3)

In Schedule 1:

(a)

after “Ivory Coast”, there shall be inserted “Kenya”; and

(b)

after “Sudan”, there shall be inserted “Tanzania”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2003/1185; as amended by S.I. 2003/2628.