The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2015

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 867

Immigration

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2015

Made

23rd March 2015

Coming into force in accordance with rule 1

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5 and 8 of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997(1), makes the following Rules.

In accordance with sections 5(9) and 8(4) of that Act, a draft of these Rules has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

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1997 c. 68. Section 5 was amended by section 82(2) of, and Schedule 5 to, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (c. 23), section 9(1) of, and paragraph 28 of Schedule 2 to, the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 (c. 34), sections 4(3), 114(3) and 161 of, and paragraph 23 of Schedule 7 and Schedule 9 to, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41), and article 5(1) of, and paragraphs 14 and 15 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2010/21 and was extended by section 6A of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997, as inserted by section 19 of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 2 to, the Justice and Security Act 2013 (c.18), and by section 97A(2K) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41), as inserted by section 54 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22) (section 97A was inserted by section 7(1) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c. 13)), and by section 18 of the Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22). Section 5(5A) was inserted by paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 9 to the Immigration Act 2014. Paragraph 9 of Schedule 2 to the Justice and Security Act 2013 inserted section 6A of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 (“the 1997 Act”). Section 6A of the 1997 Act extends section 5 of the 1997 Act (procedure in relation to jurisdiction under sections 2 and 3) so that it applies to reviews under section 2C or 2D of the 1997 Act as it applies to appeals under section 2 or 2B of that Act. Paragraph 26(4) of Schedule 9 to the Immigration Act 2014 amends section 6A of the 1997 Act so that it extends section 5 of the 1997 Act to reviews under section 2E of that Act, as well as reviews under section 2C or 2D.