The Asylum Support (Repeal) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 782

IMMIGRATION

The Asylum Support (Repeal) Order 2002

Made

21st March 2002

Coming into force

8th April 2002

Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 96(5) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999(1), the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Asylum Support (Repeal) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 8th April 2002.

Repeal of section 96(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

2.  Subsection (3) of section 96 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (ways in which support may be provided) is hereby repealed.

David Blunkett

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

21st March 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order repeals section 96(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 which provides that asylum support provided by the Secretary of State under subsections (1)(a) or (b) or (2) of that section must not, unless the circumstances of a particular case are exceptional, be wholly or mainly by way of payments made (by whatever means) to the supported person or to his dependants (if any).

(1)

1999 c. 33.