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AN ACT to amend the Immigration Act (Cap. 217).
Short title and commencement
Cap. 217.
Addition of new article to the principal Act.
BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
(2) The provisions of this Act shall come into force on such a date as the Minister responsible for immigration may by notice in the Gazette establish, and different dates may be so established for different provisions or different purposes of this Act.
A 737
"Mutual recognition of expulsion orders.
23. (1) The Principal Immigration Officer shall recognise a decision of expulsion issued by another Member State in line
with the provisions of Directive 2001/
40/EC of the 28th May 2001 on the Mutual
Recognition of Decisions on the Expulsion of Third Country Nationals and take the necessary measures to enforce such decision.
(2) The provisions of this article shall
apply to decisions of expulsion, which have
not been rescinded by the issuing Member
State, in relation to:
(a) a third country national, whose expulsion is based on a serious and present threat to public order or to national
security and safety, taken in the following cases:
(i) a conviction in the issuing Member State for an offence punishable by a penalty involving deprivation of liberty of at least
one year;
(ii) the existence of serious grounds for believing that the third country national has committed serious criminal offences or the
existence of solid evidence of his intention to commit such offences within the territory of a Member State;
(b) a third country national who is the subject of an expulsion decision based on failure to comply with national rules
on the entry or residence of aliens.
(3) The provision of this article shall not apply to family members of persons who have exercised their right of free movement
in accordance with the provisions of European Union and Maltese legislation.
A 738
Cap. 12.
(4) A third country national in whose regard a decision of expulsion has been issued as provided in sub-article (2) may be
taken into custody without warrant by the Principal Immigration Officer or by any Police officer and while he is so kept in custody
he shall be deemed to be in legal custody.
(5) No expulsion decision issued by the Principal Immigration Officer or by the competent administrative authority of a Member State
shall be obstructed by means of any warrant issued under the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure.
(6) The provisions of articles 14 and
25A shall apply to expulsion orders and the enforcement of expulsion orders taken against third country nationals.".
Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 170 of the
24th November, 2009.
LOUIS GALEA
Speaker
PAULINE ABELA
Clerk to the House of Representatives
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