The Immigration (Designation of Travel Bans) (Amendment) Order 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Immigration (Designation of Travel Bans) Order 2000 (“the 2000 Order”) by substituting the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order for the Schedule to the 2000 Order (which was last substituted by the Immigration (Designation of Travel Bans) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2003 and amended by the Immigration (Designation of Travel Bans) (Amendment) Order 2004). Any person named by or under a designated instrument, or of a description specified therein, as listed in the new Schedule will be excluded from the United Kingdom (subject to the exceptions specified in article 3 of the 2000 Order).

The effect of substituting the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order for the Schedule to the 2000 Order is to add to, and delete from, the list of designated instruments, and to make some minor technical amendments to the list.

The additions in Part 1 of the Schedule are UN Resolution 1617 (2005) of 29th July 2005 (Al Qa'ida and the Taliban), UN Resolution 1572 (2004) of 15th November 2004 (Côte d'Ivoire), UN Resolution 1596 (2005) of 18th April 2005 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), UN Resolution 1579 (2004) of 21st December 2004 (Liberia), UN Resolution 1591 (2005) of 29th March 2005 (Sudan), UN Resolution 1636 (2005) of 31st October 2005 (Syria and the Lebanon).

The additions in Part 2 of the Schedule are Common Position 2004/848/CFSP of 13th December 2004 (Belarus), Common Position 2005/666/CFSP of 20th September 2005 (Belarus), Common Position 2005/340/CFSP of 25th April 2005 (Burma), Common Position 2004/852/CFSP of 13th December 2004 (Côte d'Ivoire), Common Position 2005/440/CFSP of 13th June 2005 (Democratic Republic of Congo), Common Position 2005/80/CFSP of 31st January 2005 (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Decision 2005/83/CFSP of 31st January 2005 (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), Common Position 2005/227/CFSP of 16th March 2005 (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), Common Position 2004/902/CFSP of 22nd December 2004 (Liberia), Common Position 2005/147/CFSP of 21st February 2005 (Moldovan Republic), Common Position 2005/411/CFSP of 30th May 2005 (Sudan), Common Position 2005/792/CFSP of 14th November 2005 (Uzbekistan), Common Position 2005/146/CFSP of 21st February 2005 (Zimbabwe) and Decision 2005/592/CFSP of 29th July 2005 (Zimbabwe).

There are two deletions which are Common Position [sic] 2004/528/CFSP of 28th June 2004 (International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia) and Resolution 1455 (2003) of 17th January 2003 (Al Qa'ida and the Taliban).

Article 3 of this Order revokes Orders which are replaced by the amendment made by the Schedule to this Order.