Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993
Introductory
1 Interpretation.
2 Primacy of Convention.
Treatment of persons who claim asylum
3 Fingerprinting.
4 Housing of asylum-seekers and their dependants.
5 Housing: interpretative provisions.
6 Protection of claimants from deportation etc.
7 Curtailment of leave to enter or remain.
Rights of appeal
8 Appeals to special adjudicator.
9 Appeals from Immigration Appeal Tribunal.
9A Bail pending appeal from Immigration Appeal Tribunal
10 Visitors, short-term and prospective students and their dependants.
11 Refusals which are mandatory under immigration rules.
Visas for transit passengers
12 Carriers’ liability for transit passengers.
Supplementary
13 Financial provision.
14 Commencement.
15 Extent.
16 Short title.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 HOUSING OF ASYLUM SEEKERS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS: SUPPLEMENTARY
Qualifying persons
1In this Schedule the expression “ qualifying person ” means...
Inquiries about applicants
2If a housing authority to whom an application is made...
Notification of decision and reasons
3(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, if a housing authority...
Referral of application to another housing authority
4(1) If a housing authority to whom an application is...
Offences
5Section 74 of the Act of 1985, section 40 of...
Security of tenure
6(1) A tenancy granted in pursuance of any duty under...
Information
7(1) The Secretary of State shall, if requested to do...
Existing applicants
8(1) Nothing in section 4 or section 5 of this...
Isles of Scilly
9(1) The provisions of sections 4 and 5 of this...
SCHEDULE 2 APPEALS TO SPECIAL ADJUCATOR: SUPPLEMENTARY
New appeal rights to replace rights under the 1971 Act
1No appeal may be brought under Part II of the...
Scope of new rights of appeal
2A person may not bring an appeal on any of...
Other grounds of appeal
3Where an appeal is brought by a person on any...
Application of procedures in the 1971 Act
4(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) of this paragraph...
Special appeal procedures for claims without foundation
5(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, this paragraph applies to...
Exception for national security
6Subsection (5) of section 13, subsection (3) of section 14...
Suspension of variation of limited leave pending appeal
7The limitation on the taking effect of a variation and...
Deportation order not to be made while appeal pending
8In section 15(2) of the 1971 Act references to an...
Stay of removal directions pending appeal and bail
9Part II of Schedule 2, and paragraph 3 of Schedule...

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Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993

1993 CHAPTER 23

An Act to make provision about persons who claim asylum in the United Kingdom and their dependants; to amend the law with respect to certain rights of appeal under the Immigration Act 1971; and to extend the provisions of the Immigration (Carriers’ Liability) Act 1987 to transit passengers.

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—