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

A/CONF.2/15

Article 5 Para 2.... Amendment to Article 5

"Nothing in this Article should prevent a Contracting State in time of war or national emergency or in the interests of national security, from taking provisionally essential measures in the case of any person, pending a determination 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."