RECEIVID IN ARCHIVES 17 AUG 1961 Secretary of State The Bahrain Passport (Amendment) Regulation, 1961 The Qatar Passport (Amendment) Regulation, 1961 The Trucial States Passport (Amendment) Regulation, 1961. I submit for allowance the above Regulations. Article 1 of the Bahrain Passport Regulation, 1956, in general terms provides, inter alia, that persons entering Bahrain must have entry visas. Article 1(4) enables the Political Agent in Bahrain to waive the visa requirements in respect of such persons and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, and he now proposes to exercise this right. However Article 2 of that Regulation gives the Political Agent certain powers to order any person arriving without a visa to leave Bahrain e.g. on the same vessel or aircraft on which he arrived. The object of the Bahrain Passport (Amendment) Regulation, 1961 which is now submitted is to avoid any inconsistency between the Political Agent's proposed waiver and his powers under Article 1(4), by providing that where a visa requirement has been waived, the Political Agent may not order a person to leave Bahrain for not having a visa. The Qatar Passport Regulation, 1956 and the Trucial States Passport Regulation, 1956 contain similar provisions. Although no waiver is at present proposed in those territories, the opportunity is being taken to amend those Regulations also, to avoid any future difficulty. 4. I recommend that the Regulations be allowed. If you agree, will you please sign beneath the word "Allowed" on page 2 of each of the attached copies, (F.A. Vallat) July 27, 1961
