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Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009

198.Section 52(1) extends the permissive detention power in section 2 of the UKBA 2007 to designated immigration officers in Scotland. The provision will enable an immigration officer designated under section 1 of the UKBA 2007 to detain, at a port in Scotland, an individual whom the immigration officer thinks is subject to a warrant for arrest. Detention may be for up to three hours pending the arrival of a constable. Section 4 of the UKBA 2007 contains an interpretative provision on the meaning of “port”.

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