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Article 2

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Subject to article 3 below, the following persons shall be exempt from section 5(1) of the Immigration Act 1988—

(a)

any person who claims that his deportation would be contrary to the United Kingdom’s obligations under the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 and the Protocol thereto (“the Refugee Convention”); and

(b)

any person who would have been last given leave to enter the United Kingdom seven years or more before the date of the decision to make a deportation order against him but for his having obtained a subsequent leave, by virtue of section 3(3)(b) of the Immigration Act 1971f1, after an absence from the United Kingdom within the period limited for the duration of the earlier leave.

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f1

1971 c. 77.