Air Navigation and Transport (Preinspection) Act, 1986

Persons assigned to carry out duties at preinspection facility.

5.—It shall be lawful for a citizen of the United States, who is a permanent employee of the government of the United States and is assigned to carry out duties at a preinspection facility, to carry out pursuant to the Agreement all or any of the following duties that is to say—

(a) to take and process applications for entry into the United States;

(b) to ask for the production of travel documents and to examine such documents when produced;

(c) to ask questions relating to the eligibility of the person concerned to enter the United States;

(d) to ask for the production of documents supporting the application for permission to enter the United States and to examine such documents when produced;

(e) to request permission to search a person and to carry out a search in accordance with the permission;

(f) to defer the granting of permission to a person to enter the United States until such person has undergone a further inspection on arrival in that country;

(g) to refuse permission in accordance with the Agreement for onward passage to a person who is found to be ineligible for entry into the United States;

(h) to provide all necessary documents and information to the immigration authorities of the State regarding the refusal of permission to any person to enter the United States and to provide such authorities with the reasons for such refusal.