Family of recognised refugees

(1) The Minister shall endeavour to ensure that members of the family of a recognized refugee are permitted to enter Belize and, subject to the provisions of this section, to remain therein. (2) A member of the family of a recognized refugee who has entered Belize shall, subject to the provisions of this Act– (a) be issued with an identity card in the form prescribed; and 13 (b) subject to the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4), be permitted to remain within Belize for as long as the recognized refugee concerned is permitted so to remain. (3) Where a member of the family of a recognized refugee is within Belize in terms of this section and ceases to be a member of such family by reason of his marriage, his attaining the age of eighteen years or the cessation of his dependence upon the recognized refugee, as the case may be, he shall be permitted to continue to remain within Belize in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (4) Upon the death of a recognized refugee or upon his divorce or legal separation from any spouse, every person who, immediately before such death, divorce or legal separation, was within Belize in terms of this section as a member of the family of such recognized refugee shall be permitted to continue to remain within Belize in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (5) Nothing in this section shall prevent a member of the family of a recognized refugee or a person who has, in terms of sub-section (3) or (4), been permitted to continue to remain in Belize from himself applying for recognition and being recognized as a refugee in terms of section 8. of recognized