Security

(1) Any person may, as a condition precedent to the issue of any of the permits enumerated above, be required by the Director to deposit with him a sum sufficient to defray the cost of his maintenance and repatriation not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars in respect of each permit so issued and any such deposit may, if necessary, be used for the purpose of defraying any expenses incurred by the Government of Belize in connection with the maintenance or repatriation of the person in respect of whom the entry permit has been issued and his dependents. (2) A deposit made under sub-section (1) of this section shall, unless the person in respect of whom the entry permit has been issued is ordered to leave or is deported from Belize and the money so deposited is used for the purpose of maintaining or repatriating such person and his dependents, if any, be refunded to the depositor when the Director is satisfied that– (a) the person in respect of whom the deposit was made and his dependents, if any, are leaving Belize permanently; or 37 (b) the person in respect of whom the deposit was made has entered Belize for permanent residence and has completed three years of residence therein since making his deposit. (3) The Director may, in lieu of requiring a deposit under sub-section (1) of this section, require an applicant for an entry permit or some other person on his behalf to give security with or without sureties in a sum not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars by bond. (4) A bond entered into under sub-section (3) of this section may be enforced before any magistrate in the same manner as a recognizance under section 120 of the Summary Jurisdiction (Procedure) Act, Cap. 99.