Commencement
- Section 83(3) provides for Part 7 (General) to come into force on Royal Assent.
- Section 83(4) provides for the provisions listed in that subsection to come into force on Royal Assent for the purpose of making (and where required consulting on) regulations. This will ensure that regulations can be prepared in advance of the substantive provisions being commenced.
- Section 83(5) provides for the provisions listed in that subsection to come into force two months after Royal Assent.:
- Section 10(2) to (4) (modifications of duty to give notice of decision to deprive a person of citizenship);
- Section 28 (claims certified as clearly unfounded: removal of right of appeal); paragraphs 5 to 19 of Schedule 3, and section 28 so far as it relates to those paragraphs (removal of asylum seeker to safe third country);
- Section 30(1), (2) and (4) to (6) (Refugee Convention: general);
- Section 31 to 36 and 38 (interpretation of Refugee Convention);
- Section 39 (interpretation of Part 2);
- Section 44 (power to search container).
- Section (1) to (4) (interpretation of Part 4);
- Section 70 and 71 (visa penalties)
- Section 75 (counter-terrorism questioning of detained entrants away from place of arrival).
- The remaining provisions will be brought into force by means of commencement regulations made by the Secretary of State (Sections 87).
