Explanatory Notes

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006

2006 CHAPTER 13

30 March 2006

Information

Section 37: Information sharing: code of practice

86.Section 37 will require the Secretary of State and the Treasury jointly to issue a Code or Codes of Practice governing use of information shared in accordance with section 36(2) and the extent to which, or form and manner in which, shared information is to be made available with those sections.

87.Subsections (2) and (4) provide that a draft of the Code of Practice will be laid before Parliament before being issued and that the code of practice will come into force by means of an order, subject to the negative resolution procedure.  Subsection (3) provides that a Code of Practice may be reviewed but that any revision will be subject to the procedures set out in subsections (2) and (4).