Last Change:

06/02/2025

The Refugees Protection Act, 2007

Year: 2007

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Asylum

Description

This Act provides for the recognition and protection of refugees in the country; it is to enable effect to be given within Sierra Leone to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, done at Geneva on the 28th July, 1951, to the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
of the 31st January, 1967 and to the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, done at Addis Ababa
on the 10th September, 1969; and to provide for other related matters.

Selected provisions
Act No. 6 of 2007, The Refugees Protection Act - Generic

Act No. 6 of 2007, The Refugees Protection Act - Generic