Immigration Act 2016

Abolition of power to support certain categories of migrant U.K.

1 U.K. Section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (provision of accommodation for failed asylum-seekers, etc) is repealed.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 11 para. 1 in force at 15.1.2018 for specified purposes by S.I. 2017/1241, reg. 2(d)(i) (with Sch.) (as amended by S.I. 2018/31, reg. 2)

Prospective

2 U.K. In consequence of the repeal made by paragraph 1—

(a) in section 26A of the Immigration Act 1971, omit subsection (1)(b)(ii);

(b) in the following provisions, omit “section 4 or”—

(i) section 3A(7A) of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977;

(ii) paragraph 3A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/1118 (N.I. 15));

(iii) section 23A(5A) of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984;

(iv) paragraph 4A(1) of Schedule 1 to the Housing Act 1985;

(v) paragraph 11B of Schedule 4 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988;

(vi) paragraph 12A(1) of Schedule 1 to the Housing Act 1988;

(c) in section 99 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, in subsections (1) and (4), omit “4,”;

(d) in section 103 of that Act—

(i) omit subsection (2A), and

(ii) in subsections (6) and (7), for “section 4 or 95” substitute “ section 95 ”;

(e) in section 118(1)(b) of that Act, omit “4,”;

(f) in section 166(5) of that Act, omit paragraph (za);

(g) in the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002—

(i) in section 23, omit subsection (5),

(ii) in section 26, in subsection (3), omit “4,”,

(iii) omit section 49,

(iv) in section 51, in subsection (2), omit paragraph (b), and

(v) in section 55, in subsection (2)(a), omit “4,”;

(h) in the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004, omit section 10;

(i) in the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, omit section 43(1)(b), (2), (5), (6) and (7);

(j) in the UK Borders Act 2007—

(i) in section 17, in subsection (1)(a), omit “(and section 4)”, and

(ii) in section 40, in subsection (1), omit paragraph (e);

(k) in section 134 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, omit subsection (5);

(l) in Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, in paragraph 31(1)(a), omit “4 or” and “persons temporarily admitted and”;

(m) in paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to the Immigration Act 2014, omit paragraph (a).

[F1 (n) in paragraph 7(3)(k)(i) of Schedule 2 to the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1), in the English language text omit “section 4 (accommodation) or” and in the Welsh language text omit “adran 4 (llety) neu”.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 11 para. 2(n) inserted (1.12.2022) by The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/803), regs. 1(1), 8 (as amended by S.I. 2022/906, arts. 1(2), 15)