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Immigration Act, 2002 (Act No. 13 of 2002)

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Immigration Regulations, 2014

2. Passports

 

(1)        A passport shall—

(a) be machine readable;
(b) contain the following information relating to the holder:
(i) full names and surname;
(ii) date and place of birth;
(iii) a photograph clearly and correctly depicting his or her facial features;
(iv) gender; and
(v) nationality;

(c)        contain the following information relating to the passport itself:

(i) travel document type;
(ii) travel document number;
(iii) name of the issuing authority;
(iv) place of issue;
(v) date on which it was issued; and
(vi) expiry date thereof; and
(d) have at least two unused pages when presented for purposes of endorsing a port of entry visa, visa, permanent residence permit or entry or departure stamp.

 

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subregulation (1)(a), a foreigner may be admitted into or depart from the Republic with a non-machine readable passport: Provided that—
(a) he or she is from a foreign state that is issuing machine readable passports and has not completely phased out the non-machine readable passports; and
(b) his or her passport was issued after 24 November 2005 and its date of expiry is before 24 November 2015.

 

(3) The period of validity of a passport contemplated in section 9(4)(a) of the Act shall not be less than 30 days after the foreigner's intended date of departure from the Republic.

 

(4) The international, regional or sub-regional organisations contemplated in the definition of passport in section 1(1) of the Act, are—
(a) the United Nations, excluding its agencies, except for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;
(b) the African Union;
(c) the European Union;
(d) the Southern African Development Community; and
(e) the African Development Bank.