Refugees Act, 1998 (Act No. 130 of 1998)Chapter 1 : Interpretation, Application and Administration of Act3. Refugee status |
Subject to Chapter 3, a person qualifies for refugee status for the purposes of this Act if that person—
| (a) | owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted by reason of his or her race, gender, tribe, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group, is outside the country of his or her nationality and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of that country, or, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his or her former habitual residence is unable or, owing to such fear, unwilling to return to it; or |
| (b) | owing to external aggression, occupation, foreign domination or other events seriously disturbing public order in either a part or the whole of his or her country of origin or nationality, is compelled to leave his or her place of habitual residence in order to seek refuge in another place outside his or her country of origin or nationality; or |
| (c) | is a spouse or dependant of a person contemplated in paragraph (a) or (b). |