Annex A – Glossary
| 1951 Refugee Convention | The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 and the Protocol to that Convention. |
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| British overseas territories |
Anguilla Bermuda British Antarctic Territory British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Falkland Islands Gibraltar Montserrat Pitcairn Islands Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Turks and Caicos Islands |
| Crown Dependencies | Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man |
| Draft affirmative resolution procedure | Draft affirmative is the term used to describe a Statutory Instrument that is laid in draft, but cannot be made into law (signed by the minister) unless the draft is approved by both Houses following a debate. Certain SIs on financial matters are only considered by the Commons. |
| ECAT | Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings |
| ECHR | European Convention on Human Rights |
| IFRT | Independent Family Returns Panel |
| LASPO | Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 |
| Made affirmative resolution procedure | Made affirmative is the term used to describe a Statutory Instrument that is made into law (signed by the minister) before Parliament has considered it, but that cannot remain law unless it is approved by Parliament within a certain time period (usually 28 or 40 sitting days). |
| Negative resolution procedure | The negative procedure is a type of parliamentary procedure that applies to statutory instruments (SIs). An SI laid under the negative procedure becomes law on the day the Minister signs it and automatically remains law unless a motion – or "prayer" – to reject it is agreed by either House within 40 sitting days. |
| NRM | National Referral Mechanism |
| NTS | National Transfer Scheme |
| Refugee | A person who, "owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it" (Article 1(A)(2) of the 1951 Refugee Convention). |
| The 1971 Act | Immigration Act 1971 |
| The 1999 Act | Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 |
| The 2002 Act | Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 |
| The 2004 Act | Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 |
| The 2007 Act | UK Borders Act 2007 |
| The 2009 Act | Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 |
| The 2015 Act | Modern Slavery Act 2015 |
| The 2016 Act | Immigration Act 2016 |
| The 2022 Act | Nationality and Borders Act 2022 |
| UK | United Kingdom |
