(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations extend section 149 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, which provides for the contracting out of certain detention centres, to short-term holding facilities. This enables the Secretary of State to enter into a contract with another person for the provision or running (or the provision and running) by him, or (if the contract so provides) for the running by sub-contractors of his, of any short-term holding facility or part of a short-term holding facility.