The Immigration (Isle of Man) Order 1991

1.  This Order may be cited as the Immigration (Isle of Man) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 27th November 1991.

2.  In this Order—

“the 1971 Act” means the Immigration Act 1971;

“the 1981 Act” means the British Nationality Act 1981;

“the 1987 Act” means the Immigration (Carriers' Liability) Act 1987; and

“the 1988 Act” means the Immigration Act 1988.

3.—(1) Sections 1 to 9, 11, 24 to 29, 31, 32, 33 and 37 of the 1971 Act and Schedules 2 to 4 and 6 to that Act shall extend, with the modifications specified in Part I of Schedule 1 to this Order, to the Isle of Man.

(2) Section 52(7) of the 1981 Act and Schedule 8 to that Act, so far as they relate to the 1971 Act, shall extend, with the modifications specified in Part II of Schedule 1 to this Order, to the Isle of Man.

(3) The 1987 Act shall extend, with the modifications specified in Part III of Schedule 1 to this Order, to the Isle of Man.

(4) Sections 2, 7(2) and (3), 8, 9, 11 and 12 of the 1988 Act, and section 7(1) of the 1988 Act when brought into force in the United Kingdom, shall extend, with the modifications specified in Part IV of Schedule 1 to this Order, to the Isle of Man.

(5) The provisions specified in the first two columns of Schedule 2 to this Order (“the amending provisions”) shall extend, with the modifications specified in the third column, to the Isle of Man, and accordingly the references in paragraph (1) to provisions of the 1971 Act are to provisions of that Act as amended by the amending provisions.

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), and unless the contrary intention appears, for the purposes of construing provisions of the 1971 Act, the 1981 Act, the 1987 Act and the 1988 Act, as extended by article 3, as part of the law of the Isle of Man, any reference to an enactment which extends to the Isle of Man shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as it has effect in the Isle of Man.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to the reference in section 8(4) of the 1971 Act to the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964(1).

5.  The Orders specified in Schedule 3 to this Order are revoked to the extent specified.

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council