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

Which version?
Latest available (Revised)
Original (As enacted)

General

67Extent

(1)

This Act extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, subject as follows.

(2)

Section 23 extends to England and Wales only.

(3)

Section 24 extends to Scotland only.

(4)

Section 25 extends to Northern Ireland only.

(5)

Subsections (7) to (10) of section 4 (and section 65 so far as applying to those subsections) also extend to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and the British overseas territories, but only so as to enable regulations under subsection (7) of section 4 to make provision for any of sections 31 to 36 to have effect with modifications in relation to a person to whom regulations under that subsection apply.

(6)

Sections 31 to 37 also extend to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and the British overseas territories.

(7)

His Majesty may by Order in Council provide for any of the provisions of this Act to extend, with or without modifications, to any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

(8)

Subsection (7) does not apply to—

(a)

sections 4(7) to (10) and 65, so far as they extend to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man by virtue of subsection (5), or

(b)

sections 31 to 37.

(9)

Any amendment, repeal or revocation made by this Act has the same extent within the United Kingdom as the provision to which it relates.

(10)

A power under any provision listed in subsection (11) may be exercised so as to extend (with or without modifications) to any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man any amendment or repeal made by or under this Act of any part of an Act to which the provision listed in subsection (11) relates.

(11)

Those provisions are—

(a)

section 36 of the Immigration Act 1971,

(b)

section 9(3) of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997,

(c)

section 170(7) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999,

(d)

section 163(4) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002,

(e)

section 49(3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004,

(f)

section 60(4) of the UK Borders Act 2007,

(g)

section 57(5) of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009,

(h)

section 60(6) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015,

(i)

section 95(5) of the Immigration Act 2016, and

(j)

section 86(4) of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.