Y4.10 Restrictions on the grant of a visa or entry permission to certain groups as designated by the United Nations Security Council (02/02/2015)

See also United Nations Sanctions (Liberia) Regulations 2001 reg 16; United Nations Sanctions (Al-Qaida and Taliban) Regulations 2007 reg 13; United Nations Sanctions (Côte d'Ivoire) Regulations 2005 reg 13; United Nations Sanctions (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) Regulations 2006 reg 17; United Nations Sanctions (Iran) Regulations 2010 reg 25; United Nations Sanctions (Lebanon) Regulations 2008 reg 17; United Nations Sanctions (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Regulations 2004 reg 12D; United Nations Sanctions (Sudan) Regulations 2004 reg 13D; United Nations Sanctions (Somalia) Regulations 1992 reg 10F, United Nations Sanctions (Eritrea) Regulations 2010 reg 13; United Nations Sanctions (Libya) Regulations 2011 reg 17; United Nations Sanctions (Guinea-Bissau) Regulations 2012 reg 4; United Nations Sanctions (Central African Republic) Regulations 2014 reg 13; United Nations Sanctions (Yemen) Regulations 2014 reg 4.

1. Entry permission must be refused to any person, except a person listed in Y3.10(a), who is a designated individual or specified entity; and is not otherwise dealt with under Y4.1.
2. A designated individual or a specified entity means someone who is named on a list of such persons held by Immigration New Zealand and includes:
   1. designated individuals from Liberia
   2. designated individuals from Côte d'Ivoire
   3. designated individuals from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and:
      • their immediate family members, and
      • people acting on their behalf or under their direction, and
      • people assisting in the evasion of a determination by the United Nations Security Council that applies to the DPRK
   4. designated individuals and specified entities from Al-Qaida and Taliban
   5. designated individuals from Iran
   6. designated individuals from Lebanon
   7. designated individuals from the Democratic Republic of Congo
   8. designated individuals from Sudan
   9. designated individuals from Somalia
   10. designated individuals from Eritrea
   11. designated individuals from Libya
   12. designated individuals from Guinea-Bissau
   13. designated individuals from Central African Republic
   14. designated individuals from Yemen.
3. Immigration officers must contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade when processing application for entry permission or a visa from a person to whom (b) above applies.
4. A visa or entry permission may only be granted to a person to whom (b) above applies:
   1. on the advice of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and
   2. if the immigration officer deliberately and properly does so as an exception to instructions (see Y4.45).

Effective 02/02/2015