Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 1545

IMMIGRATION

The Immigration Appeals (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 1991

Made

8th July 1991

Laid before Parliament

16th July 1991

Coming into force

31st October 1991

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 22 of, and paragraph 25 of Schedule 2 to, the Immigration Act 1971(1), and now vested in him(2), hereby makes the following Rules:–

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Immigration Appeals (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 1991 and shall come into force on 31st October 1991.

Amendment of Immigration Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1984(3)

2. In rule 27 of the Immigration Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1984, for “10 miles” there shall be substituted “16 kilometres”.

Mackay of Clashfern, C

8th July 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Immigration Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1984 to substitute a measurement in kilometres for a measurement in miles in rule 27, in pursuance of the European Community Council Directive of 27th November 1989 amending Directive 80/181/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to units of measurement (89/617/EEC)

(1)

1971 c. 77.

(2)

Transfer of Functions (Immigration Appeals) Order 1987 (S.I.1987/465), article 2.

(3)

S.I. 1984/2041.