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[F1Schedule 1] U.K.INTERNATIONAL ARTICLES

[F2PROTOCOLU.K.CONCERNING THE ORGANISATION OF BORDER CONTROLS IN THE CONTROL ZONES

Textual Amendments

F2Sch. 1 Protocol omitted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(a) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Channel Tunnel (Arrangements with the Kingdom of the Netherlands) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1190), arts. 1(2)(a), 2(6)(a)

Commencement Information

I1Sch. Protocol in force at 30.9.2020, see art. 1(2)(b)

ARTICLE 5U.K.

1.  The frontier controls of the Host State shall normally be effected before those of the Destination State.U.K.

2.  The Officers of the Destination State are not authorised to begin to carry out such controls before the end of the controls of the Host State. Any form of relinquishment of such controls shall be considered as a control.U.K.

3.  The Officers of the Host State may no longer carry out their controls when the officers of the Destination State have begun their own operations, except with the consent of the Competent officers of the Destination State.U.K.

4.  If exceptionally, in the course of the frontier controls, the sequence of operations provided for in paragraph (1) of this Article is modified, the officers of the Destination State may not proceed to detentions, arrests or seizures until the frontier controls of the Host State are completed. In such a case, these Officers shall escort the persons, vehicles, merchandise, animals or other goods, for which the frontier controls of the Host State are not yet completed, to the officers of that State. If these latter then wish to proceed to detentions, arrests or seizures, they shall have priority.]U.K.