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Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024

2024 CHAPTER 8

An Act to make provision about the removal of certain migrants to the Republic of Rwanda.[25th April 2024]

Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1Introduction

(1) The purpose of this Act is to prevent and deter unlawful migration, and in particular migration by unsafe and illegal routes, by enabling the removal of persons to the Republic of Rwanda under provision made by or under the Immigration Acts.

(2) To advance that purpose—

(a) the Rwanda Treaty has been laid before Parliament under section 20 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (treaties to be laid before Parliament before ratification) with a view to ratification by the United Kingdom, and

(b) this Act gives effect to the judgement of Parliament that the Republic of Rwanda is a safe country.

(3) The Government of the Republic of Rwanda has, in accordance with the Rwanda Treaty, agreed to fulfil the following obligations—

(a) that any person removed to the Republic of Rwanda under the provisions of the Treaty (a “relocated individual”) will not be removed from Rwanda except to the United Kingdom;

(b) that any relocated individual is to be made available for return to the United Kingdom following a request from the Government of the United Kingdom;