The Immigration (Registration Card) Order 2008

Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 1693

Immigration

The Immigration (Registration Card) Order 2008

Made

26th June 2008

Coming into force

27th June 2008

The Secretary of State makes the following order in the exercise of powers conferred by section 26A(7)(a) of the Immigration Act 1971(1);

In accordance with section 26A(8) of that Act, a draft of this instrument was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

Citation and commencement

1.  This order may be cited as the Immigration (Registration Card) Order 2008 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Definition of registration card

2.  In section 26A of the Immigration Act 1971, for subsection (1)(b) there shall be substituted the following—

“(b) is issued by the Secretary of State to the person wholly or partly in connection with—

(i) a claim for asylum (whether or not made by that person), or

(ii) a claim for support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act   1999 (whether or not made by that person). ”(2)

Liam Byrne

Minister of State

Home Office

26th June 2008

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This order amends the definition of a registration card contained in section 26A(1) of the Immigration Act 1971. Section 26A(3) creates certain offences in relation to the use of a registration card. Article 2 amends that definition so that a registration card now means a document which carries information about a person (whether or not wholly or partly electronically) and is issued by the Secretary of State either to the person wholly or partly in connection with a claim for asylum (whether or not made by that person) or to the person wholly or partly in connection with a claim for support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

(1)

1971 c.77. Section 26A was inserted by section 148 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c.41).

(2)

1999 c.33. Sections 4(2) to (4) were inserted by section 49(1) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. Sections 4(5) to (9) were inserted by section 10(1) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 (c.19). Section 4(10) and (11) were inserted by section 43(7) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c.13).