Section 43: Transfer of leave stamps
204.Section 43 amends section 5 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 which enables the Secretary of State, with the approval of the Treasury, to make regulations prescribing fees to be paid in connection with certain immigration applications. In particular, section 5(1)(c) enables fees to be prescribed for applications for an indefinite leave stamp to be transferred into the applicant's passport or travel document as the result of the renewal or replacement of his previous passport or travel document.
205.This section substitutes a new section 5(1)(c) which will enable fees to be prescribed for applications for limited leave stamps as well as indefinite leave stamps to be transferred into the applicant's passport or other document issued to the applicant, where the leave stamp was previously fixed in another passport or document issued to the applicant.
206.This section also replaces section 5(5) Act 1999 (which defines "indefinite leave stamp") with a new subsection (5), which defines "limited leave stamp" and "indefinite leave stamp" for the purposes of section 5. In particular this makes clear that "leave stamps" include stamps, stickers and any other attachment which indicates that a person has been granted limited or indefinite leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom.
