Passports

(1) Subject to this Act and to any regulations made under this section, every person entering or leaving Belize shall be in possession of a valid passport which he shall present to the immigration officer at a place of entry or departure for examination and for making therein the appropriate entry, 20 provided that in the case of persons under sixteen years of age who are not in possession of their own passports they must be included in the passport of one or other of their parents. (2) A person entering Belize without a passport shall be deemed to be a prohibited immigrant unless and until he explains why he has no passport, and establishes his identity and nationality, to the satisfaction of the immigration officer. (3) The Minister may, by regulations– (a) order that the passport of a national of any foreign country shall not be accepted unless it bears a visa issued by a Belize Consular Officer or, in the case of a country where there is no Belize Consular Officer, then by the British Consular Officer, or by a person authorised by the Belize Government to grant visas to enter Belize; (b) exempt any class of persons entering Belize from the provisions of this sub-section either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as may by such regulations be imposed.