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the United Kingdom and Colonies or "British Subject, Citizen of the United Kingdom, Islands and Colonies or British Subject, Citizen of the State of Singapore" or British Subject, Citizen of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland" or British Protected Person' shall be free to travel from any place whatever to Belgium (metropolitan territory) without the necessity of obtaining a visa. However, British subjects and British Protected Persons wishing to proceed to Belgium for a stay exceeding three months should, before their departure, obtain a provisional residence authorisation from the competent Belgian diplomatic or consular mission.
4. The provisions of paragraphs 1, 2 or 3 above shall not exempt Belgian citizens proceeding to any British territory or British subjects or British Protected Persons proceeding to Belgium from the necessity of complying with, respectively, the laws and regulations of the British territory concerned, or of Belgium, relating to the entry, residence (temporary or permanent) and employment or occupation of foreigners. Travellers who are unable to satisfy the competent authorities that they comply with these laws and regulations may be refused leave to enter or to land.
5. The right is reserved to the competent authorities of Belgium and of all British territories to refuse any person leave to enter or stay in the country concerned in any case where that person is regarded as undesirable by those authorities; or is otherwise ineligible under the general policy of the respective Governments relating to the entry or stay of aliens.
6. Each Government undertakes to take back to its territory at any time persons having entered the territory of the other Government under the terms of this Agreement.
7. Either Government may suspend the foregoing provisions in whole or in part temporarily for reasons of public order and/or national security and the suspension shall be notified immediately to the other Government through the diplomatic channel.
8. The present Agreement abrogates and replaces the Agreement for the Reciprocal Abolition of Visas between Belgium and the United Kingdom concluded in London by an Exchange of Notes of the 5th of February, 1947.(2)
9. The present Agreement shall enter into force on the 10th of April, 1960, and shall remain in effect for a period of one year. Unless the Agreement is denounced by either Government at least two months before the expiry of this period, it shall thereafter remain in operation for an indefinite period, it being understood that either Government may at any time denounce the Agreement upon giving to the other six months' notice of their intention to do so.
(2) "Treaty Series No. 4 (1947)”, Cmd. 7038.
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