Seanad debates
Thursday, 3 July 2003
Immigration Bill 2002 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages.
In all of these cases, the applicant had necessarily been interviewed before commencement of this new Bill. If the applicant has not yet been interviewed at the time of commencement, then the Refugee Act, as amended by this Bill, will apply, and subsection (2) of this section ensures fairness by requiring that every applicant who is to be affected by the changes will be given a statement describing the changes and pointing out how the rules under which their application has been dealt with have been altered. That has to be given to the applicant before he or she can be interviewed under the new rules.
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