Entry, Residence and Departure Act

Entry, Residence and Departure Act

Human Mobility
Legislation
1972
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Year of publication
1972
Specific thematic area
Migration
Sector of governance
Human Mobility
Type of human mobility
Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Cross-border
Type of environmental driver
None
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
None
Type of provision related to human mobility in disaster and climate change contexts
INDIRECT SPECIFIC - Exception related to the general prohibition on unlawful entry, in humanitarian situations. No referente to disasters.
Sub-region
Polynesia
Region
Polynesia
Macro-region
Oceania
Relevant GCM objective
    5 - Regular pathways
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
Not Available

“[i]n any other circumstances which, on humanitarian grounds, in the opinion of the Principal Immigration Officer, reasonably warrants his entry into the Cook Islands.”

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).