Legislation – Illegal Migration Act 2023

2 Duty to make arrangements for removal

3 Amendment of date in section 2(3) etc

4 Unaccompanied children and power to provide for exceptions

5 Disregard of certain claims, applications etc

6 Removal for the purposes of section 2 or 4

7 Powers to amend Schedule 1

8 Further provisions about removal

9 Support where asylum claim inadmissible

10 Other consequential amendments relating to removal

11 Powers of detention

12 Period for which persons may be detained

13 Powers to grant immigration bail

14 Disapplication of duty to consult Independent Family Returns Panel

15 Electronic devices etc

16 Accommodation and other support for unaccompanied migrant children

17 Transfer of children from Secretary of State to local authority and vice versa

18 Duty of local authority to provide information to the Secretary of State

19 Enforcement of local authorities’ duties under sections 17 and 18

20 Extension to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

21 Transfer of children between local authorities

22 Provisions relating to removal and leave

23 Provisions relating to support: England and Wales

24 Provisions relating to support: Scotland

25 Provisions relating to support: Northern Ireland

26 Suspension and revival of sections 22 to 25

27 Procedure for certain regulations under section 26

28 Amendments relating to sections 22 to 25

29 Disapplication of modern slavery provisions

30 Entry into and settlement in the United Kingdom

31 Persons prevented from obtaining British citizenship etc

32 British citizenship

33 British overseas territories citizenship

34 British overseas citizenship

35 British subjects

36 Disapplication of sections 32 to 35

37 Amendments relating to sections 32 to 36

38 Suspensive claims: interpretation

39 Serious harm suspensive claims: interpretation

40 Meaning of “serious and irreversible harm”

41 Relationship with other proceedings

42 Serious harm suspensive claims

43 Removal conditions suspensive claims

44 Appeals in relation to suspensive claims

45 Permission to appeal in relation to suspensive claims certified as clearly unfounded

46 Suspensive claims out of time

47 Suspensive claims: duty to remove

48 Upper Tribunal consideration of new matters

49 Appeals in relation to suspensive claims: timing

50 Procedure for Tribunal Procedure Rules

51 Finality of certain decisions by the Upper Tribunal

52 Judges of First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal

53 Special Immigration Appeals Commission

54 Interim remedies

55 Interim measures of the European Court of Human Rights

57 Decisions relating to a person’s age

58 Age assessments: power to make provision about refusal to consent to scientific methods

59 Inadmissibility of certain asylum and human rights claims

60 Cap on number of entrants using safe and legal routes

61 Report on safe and legal routes

62 Credibility of claimant: concealment of information etc

63 Financial provision

64 Consequential and minor provision

66 Defined expressions

68 Commencement

SCHEDULES

Schedule 1 Countries or territories to which a person may be removed

Schedule 2 Electronic devices etc

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42Serious harm suspensive claims

(1)

This section applies where, within the claim period, a person makes a serious harm suspensive claim to the Secretary of State.

(2)

The Secretary of State must, before the end of the decision period, consider the claim and make one of the following decisions—

(a)

that the serious harm condition is met in relation to the person, or

(b)

that the serious harm condition is not met in relation to the person.

(3)

If the Secretary of State makes a decision under subsection (2)(b), the Secretary of State may also certify that the claim is clearly unfounded (see sections 44(1)(c) and 45 (appeals)).

(4)

In considering a serious harm suspensive claim, the Secretary of State must take into account the following factors—

(a)

any assurances given by the government of the country or territory specified in the removal notice;

(b)

any support and services (including in particular medical services) provided by that government;

(c)

in circumstances where it is reasonable to expect a person to have provided certain evidence and they have not done so, the fact that the person has not provided such evidence.

(5)

A claim under subsection (1) must—

(a)

contain compelling evidence that the serious harm condition is met in relation to the person,

(b)

contain the prescribed information, and

(c)

be made in the prescribed form and manner.

In this subsection “prescribed” means prescribed in regulations made by the Secretary of State.

(6)

Before the end of the claim period or the decision period in relation to a serious harm suspensive claim, the Secretary of State may, by notice to the person concerned, extend the period where the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to do so.

(7)

In this section—

“claim period” means the period of 8 days beginning with the day on which the person is given the third country removal notice;

“decision period” means the period of 4 days beginning with—

(a)

the day on which the person makes the serious harm suspensive claim, or

(b)

where section 46(3) or (6) (out of time claims) applies, the day on which the Secretary of State makes the decision mentioned in section 46(3) or is given notice of the determination of the Upper Tribunal mentioned in section 46(6) (as the case may be).