Y4.10 Restrictions on the grant of a visa or entry permission to certain groups as designated by the United Nations Security Council (28/06/2018)

See also United Nations Sanctions (Al-Qaida and Taliban) Regulations 2007 reg 13; United Nations Sanctions (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) Regulations 2017 reg 47; United Nations (Iran-Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) Regulations 2016 reg 32; 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 2018 reg 20, United Nations Sanctions (Eritrea) Regulations 2010 reg 13; United Nations Sanctions (Libya) Regulations 2018 reg 23; United Nations Sanctions (Mali) Regulations 2018 reg 4; 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; United Nations Sanctions (South Sudan) Regulations 2015 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 the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and:
      • their immediate family members, and
      • an individual (whether or not a DPRK national) acting on the behalf or under the direction of a designated individual, and
      • an individual (whether or not a DPRK national) assisting in the evasion or violation of the measures set out in the UN resolutions listed in section 3 of the United Nations Sanctions (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) Regulations 2017
   2. designated individuals and specified entities from Al-Qaida and Taliban
   3. designated individuals from Iran
   4. designated individuals from Lebanon
   5. designated individuals from the Democratic Republic of Congo
   6. designated individuals from Sudan
   7. designated individuals from Somalia
   8. designated individuals from Eritrea
   9. designated individuals from Libya
   10. designated individuals from Mali
   11. designated individuals from Guinea-Bissau
   12. designated individuals from Central African Republic
   13. designated individuals from Yemen
   14. designated individuals from South Sudan.
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).

Note: For the purposes of these instructions a designated individual and a specified entity is someone who is named on a list of such persons held by INZ and updated from time to time.

Effective 28/06/2018