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Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 27 Cited in Amendments 205 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1993 c. 23
Year1993
  • I.n this Act—
  • Nothing in the immigration rules (within the meaning of the 1971 Act) shall lay down any practice which would be contrary to the Convention.
    • take such steps as may be reasonably necessary for taking the claimant’s fingerprints; orby notice in writing require the claimant to attend at a place specified in the notice in order that such steps may be taken.the child’s parent or guardian; ora person who for the time being takes responsibility for the child and is not an immigration officer, constable, prison officer or officer of the Secretary of State.the powers conferred by subsection (1) above shall not be exercisable in relation to him or any dependant of his; andany requirement imposed on him or any dependant of his by a notice under subsection (1) (b) above shall no longer have effect.shall give him a period of at least seven days within which he is to attend as mentioned in that paragraph; andmay require him so to attend at a specified time of day or between specified times of day.he may be removed to a place where his fingerprints may conveniently be taken, and(whether or not he is so removed) there may be taken such steps as may be reasonably necessary for taking his fingerprints,the end of the period of one month beginning with any day on which he is given indefinite leave under the 1971 Act to enter or remain in the United Kingdom; andthe end of the period of ten years beginning with the day on which the fingerprints are taken.any copies of the fingerprints shall also be destroyed; andif there are any computer data relating to the fingerprints, the Secretary of State shall, as soon as it is practicable to do so, make it impossible for access to be gained to the data.subsection (7) (b) above falls to be complied with, andthe person to whose fingerprints the data relate asks for a certificate that it has been complied with,“immigration officer” means an immigration officer appointed for the purposes of the 1971 Act; andwho is his spouse or a child of his under the age of eighteen; andwho has neither a right of abode in the United Kingdom nor indefinite leave under the 1971 Act to enter or remain in the United Kingdom.(10) Nothing in this section shall be taken to limit the power conferred by paragraph 18(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act.
  • During the period beginning when a person makes a claim for asylum and ending when the Secretary of State gives him notice of the decision on the claim, he may not be removed from, or required to leave, the United Kingdom.
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