Amendment of regulation 8 of the Departure Direction Regulations
7.—(1) Regulation 8 of the Departure Direction Regulations (procedure in relation to the determination of an application) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (1), after the words “Secretary of State shall” there shall be inserted the words “, unless he is satisfied on the information or evidence available to him that a departure direction is unlikely to be given”.
(3) After paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(4A) Where the provisions of paragraph (1) have not been complied with because the Secretary of State was satisfied on the information or evidence available to him that a departure direction was unlikely to be given, but on further consideration of the application he is minded to give a departure direction in that case, he shall, before doing so, comply with the provisions of this regulation.”.