Immigration Act 2014 Explanatory Notes

Disclosures by registration officials

337.Paragraph 2(1) allows a registration official to disclose any information or supply any document held to the Secretary of State or to another registration official for a purpose defined in sub-paragraph (2).

338.Paragraph 2(2) provides for information to be disclosed for (a) immigration purposes and (b) purposes connected to the referral of proposed marriage and civil partnership notices.

339.Paragraph 2(3) defines “immigration purposes” for the purpose of this paragraph.

340.Paragraph 3 allows a registration official to disclose to another registration official that a suspicion about a marriage or civil partnership has been reported to the Secretary of State under section 24 or 24A of the 1999 Act and the content of that report.

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