Draft Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. United Kingdom: Amendment to Article 7

Amend paragraph 2 of this Article to read as follows (the amendment is underlined):-

"2. Rights dependent on personal status, more particularly rights attaching to marriage, previously acquired by a refugee, shall be respected by a Contracting State, subject to compliance, if this be necessary, with the formalities required by the law of that State, provided that the right is one which would have been recognized by the law of that State had he not become a refugee".

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