Draft Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. United Kingdom: Amendment to Article 5

A/CONF.2/26

Article 5

Delete Paragraph 2 and add a new Article in the following terms:

"Nothing in this Convention shall prevent a Contracting State, in time of war or national emergency, from taking provisional measures which it considers to be essential to the national security in the case of any person, pending a determination by the Contracting State that the particular person is in fact a refugee and that such measures are still necessary in his case in the interests of national security".