Last Change:
05/14/2025
The Refugees Act, 2017
Year: 2017
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Asylum
Description
The Act provides the legal framework for refugees in the country, including the definition of a refugee, procedures for applying for refugee status, and the responsibilities of various bodies such as the National Refugee Advisory Committee, the National Refugee Appeals Board, and the Commissioner for Refugees.
Selected provisions
The Refugees Act, 2017 - Generic
A person shall not be refused entry into the country, be expelled, extradited or returned to any other country or be subject to any similar measure, if as a result of such refusal, expulsion, extradition, return or measure, such person is compelled to return to or remain in a country where -
(a) that person may be subjected to persecution on account of the race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion of that person; or
(b) the life, physical safety or freedom of that person would be threatened on account of external
aggression, occupation, foreign domination or events seriously disturbing public order in a part or the whole of that country.