Paragraph 16 Refugees

Notwithstanding that he would otherwise be a student, a person who is a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951^f1 as extended by Article 1(2) of the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees done at New York on 31st January 1967^f2 and who—

(a)

is attending for more than 15 hours a week a course for the purpose of learning English so that he may obtain employment; and

(b)

on the date on which that course commenced, had been in Northern Ireland for not more than 12 months,

but only for a period not exceeding 9 months.

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Footnotes

f1: Cmnd. 9171
f2: Cmnd. 3906