The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 2626

channel tunnel

The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order 2006

Made

29th September 2006

Laid before Parliament

5th October 2006

Coming into force

26th October 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred on the appropriate Minister by section 11 of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987(1), the Secretary of State makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 26^th October 2006.

Amendment of the Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 1993

2.  After paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 1993(2) insert—

“Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

2A.   In the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999(3) in section 141 (fingerprinting)—

(a) in subsection (7)(a) for “on his arrival in the United Kingdom” substitute “in a control zone or a supplementary control zone”;

(b) in subsection (9)(b) for his “removal or deportation from the United Kingdom” substitute “his leaving a control zone or a supplementary control zone”.”.

Vernon Coaker

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Home Office

29th September 2006

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 1993. It amends Schedule 4 to that Order to modify the power to take fingerprints under section 141 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 so as to apply it in the juxtaposed controls.

(1)

1987 c.53, acting as the appropriate minister as defined in section 13 of that Act.

(2)

S.I. 1993/1813; relevant amendments were made by S.I. 2001/1544.

(3)

1999 c.33.