Immigration control in Trucial States: powers of arrest without warrant for passport offences given to Trucial Oman levies

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Britain's intention to withdraw the waiver exempting Saudi Arabians from Trucial States passport regulations before Gulf Aviation starts its fortnightly service to Abu Dhabi (1-2)
• The background to the waiver, linked to the 1952 Buraimi Standstill Agreement, and a recommendation by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf B A B Burrows for a replacement waiver that will only apply to persons from Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, Qatar and Yemen (3)
• Saudi complaints concerning the withdrawal of the waiver (4-5, 8)
• 'Trucial Oman Levies (Amendment) Regulation, 1955', allowing the Trucial Oman Levies to arrest without warrant for offences against passport regulations. Prime Minister Anthony Eden cautiously agrees (6-7)
• Confiscated passport [enclosed] issued by the Imam of Oman to Pakistani pilgrims, written in Saudi Arabic (9)
• Use of Bahrain's passport regulations as a basis for amending the Trucial Coast equivalent. It includes discussion of amendments (10)
• Lincoln's Inn Library acknowledging receipt of the Trucial Oman Levies (Amendment) Regulation, 1955 (11)
• Draft of the 'Trucial States Passport Regulation, 1955', embodying amendments by Judge C H Haines. It also contains a draft of the 'Bahrain Passport Regulation, 1954' (12)