The Immigration and Asylum Appeals (One-Stop Procedure) Regulations 2000

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;

“the 1997 Act” means the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997(1);

“claim” means a claim to which section 75 applies;

“decision-taker” means the Secretary of State or an immigration officer, as the case may be;

“notice” means a section 74 or section 75 notice, as the case may be;

“representative” means a person who appears to the decision-taker—

(a)

to be the representative of a requisite person; and

(b)

not to be prohibited from acting as a representative by section 84 of the Act;

“requisite person” means the person on whom the notice is required to be served;

“section 74 notice” means a notice which is required to be served under section 74(4);

“section 75 notice” means a notice which is required to be served under section 75(2);

“statement” means the statement specifying additional grounds which the requisite person has or may have for wishing to enter or remain in the United Kingdom; and

“statement form” means the form shown in Part III of the Schedule to these Regulations.

(2) Where reference is made in these Regulations to a form shown in the Schedule to these Regulations, that form, or a form to like effect, may be used with such variations as the circumstances may require.

(3) In these Regulations, a section referred to by number alone is a reference to a section of the Act.

(1)

1997 c. 68.