The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2018

Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 736

Immigration

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2018

Made

7th June 2018

Coming into force in accordance with rule 1(2)

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.

(1)

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. Section 5 was extended by section 6A of the 1997 Act so that it applies to reviews under sections 2C, 2D, 2E of that Act as it applies to appeals under sections 2 and 2B of that Act and section 5 was also extended by section 97A(2K) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41) 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. When it comes into force, section 66 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2) will amend section 8 of the 1997 Act to extend the Lord Chancellor’s power to make rules so that it also includes rules regulating, and prescribing the procedure to be followed on, applications to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission for the grant of a certificate under section 7B of the 1997 Act.