SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9 Asylum Support: Interim Provisions

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1

The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision requiring prescribed local authorities or local authorities falling within a prescribed description of authority to provide support, during the interim period, to eligible persons.

2

“Eligible persons” means—

a

asylum-seekers, or

b

their dependants,

who appear to be destitute or to be likely to become destitute within such period as may be prescribed.

3

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), in Northern Ireland, a Health and Social Services Board established under Article 16 of the M1Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 is to be treated as a local authority.