PART 5 PROCEDURE IN RELATION TO EEA DECISIONS

Person subject to removal24

F11

If there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person is someone who may be removed from the United Kingdom under F4regulation 19(3)(b)” and for “an immigration officer” substitute “the Secretary of State, that person may be detained under the authority of an immigration officer pending a decision whether or not to remove the person under that regulation, and paragraphs 17 and 18 of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act shall apply in relation to the detention of such a person as those paragraphs apply in relation to a person who may be detained under paragraph 16 of that Schedule.

2

F2 Where a decision is taken to remove a person under regulation 19(3)(a), F6or (c) the person is to be treated as if he were a person to whom section 10(1)(a) of the 1999 Act M1 applied, and section 10 of that Act (removal of certain persons unlawfully in the United Kingdom) is to apply accordingly.

3

F2 Where a decision is taken to remove a person under regulation 19(3)(b), the person is to be treated as if he were a person to whom section 3(5)(a) of the 1971 Act M2 (liability to deportation) applied, and section 5 of that Act M3 (procedure for deportation) and Schedule 3 to that Act M4 (supplementary provision as to deportation) are to apply accordingly.

F34

A person who enters the United Kingdom in breach of a deportation or exclusion order F7, or in circumstances where that person was not entitled to be admitted pursuant to regulation 19(1) or (1AB), shall be removable as an illegal entrant under Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act and the provisions of that Schedule shall apply accordingly.

5

Where such a deportation order is made against a person but he is not removed under the order during the two year period beginning on the date on which the order is made, the Secretary of State shall only take action to remove the person under the order after the end of that period if, having assessed whether there has been any material change in circumstances since the deportation order was made, he considers that the removal continues to be justified on the grounds of public policy, public security or public health.

6

A person to whom this regulation applies shall be allowed one month to leave the United Kingdom, beginning on the date on which he is notified of the decision to remove him, before being removed pursuant to that decision except—

a

in duly substantiated cases of urgency;

b

where the person is detained pursuant to the sentence or order of any court;

c

where a person is a person to whom regulation 24(4) applies.

F57

Paragraph (6) of this regulation does not apply where a decision has been taken under regulation 19(3) on the basis that the relevant person—

a

has ceased to have a derivative right of residence; or

b

is a person who would have had a derivative right of residence but for the effect of a decision to remove under regulation 19(3)(b).