Alex White (Labour)

I move amendment No. 5:

In page 9, subsection (2)(a), line 35, after "or" to insert "the person does not comply with section 18(6), or"

The proposal refers to section 12(2)(a). Again we are dealing with a circumstance whereby the Minister may refuse to issue a passport. Section 12(2) states:

The Minister may refuse to issue a passport to a person if—

(a) the application for the issue of a passport to the person does not comply with section 6, or

We want to insert, "the person does not comply with section 18(6), or". This deals with the cancellation and surrender of passports and that subsection provides as follows:

An applicant for a passport shall, if so required by the Minister, surrender a passport that was issued to him or her (whether or not it is valid) to the Minister before another passport may be issued to him or her.

It seems to follow logically that this should be a circumstance in which a Minister may refuse to issue a passport if such an applicant is a person who has been asked, and refused, to surrender a passport.