Seanad debates
Thursday, 3 July 2003
Immigration Bill 2002 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages.
The provision in the amendment is modelled on that at section 7 of the Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Act 2000 and avoids the archaic and draconian language of the 1935 original. For instance, the power to "interrogate . . . all or any persons found in such place" in the 1935 Act is ameliorated in the Government's proposal to a power to ask a person's name and address. In the same vein, the text in the amendment is informed by the concept of reasonableness, a word that does not feature in the 1935 provision in any context.
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