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 the Netherlands without the necessity of obtaining a visa. However, British subjects and British Protected Persons wishing to proceed to the Netherlands for a stay exceeding three months should, before their departure, obtain a provisional residence authorisation from the competent Netherlands. diplomatic or consular mission.
4. The provisions of paragraphs 1, 2 or 3 above shall not exempt Nether- lands citizens proceeding to any British territory or British subjects or British Protected Persons proceeding to the Netherlands from the necessity of complying with, respectively, the laws and regulations of the British territory concerned, or of the Netherlands relating to the entry, residence (temporary or permanent) and employment or occu- pation 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 the Netherlands 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.
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8. The present Agreement shall supersede the Agreement for the,
Reciprocal Abolition of Visas between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands Government concluded in London on the 21st of March, 1947.(2)
9. As far as the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is concerned the present Agreement shall for the time being only apply to the territory of the Kingdom in Europe. The Agreement may, how- ever, be extended to any of the other Parts of the Kingdom by means of a written notification from the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
10. (a) The 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
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