Section 29: Attendance for fingerprinting
63.Section 29 amends section 142 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
64.Section 141 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 allows an authorized person (as defined) to take fingerprints from a person to whom the section applies. The section applies to, amongst others, asylum-seekers and their dependants. Section 142 of that Act allows the Secretary of State, by notice in writing, to require a person to whom section 141 applies to attend a specified place for fingerprinting. Section 142(2) currently states that the notice must give the person a period of at least seven days within which to attend. Further, that period cannot begin until at least seven days have passed since the date of the notice. The notice may also require the person to attend on a specified time of day or during specified hours. In relation to asylum-seekers and their dependants only, this section seeks to amend section 142 so that a notice under the section:
may require the person to attend during a specified period, beginning with a day not less than three days after the date given in the notice as its date of issue,
may require the person to attend on a specified day not less than three days after the date given in the notice as its date of issue, and
may require the person to attend at a specified time of day or during specified hours.
