The Immigration (Ports of Entry) Order 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 177

IMMIGRATION

The Immigration (Ports of Entry) Order 1987

Made

10th February 1987

Coming into forceÊ

1st March 1987

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 33(3) of the Immigration Act 1971,(1) I hereby make the following Order—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Immigration (Ports of Entry) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st March 1987.

(2) The Immigration (Ports of Entry) Order 1972,(2) the Immigration (Ports of Entry) (Amendment) Order 1975(3) and the Immigration (Ports of Entry) (Amendment) Order 1979(4) are hereby revoked.

2.  The ports specified in the Schedule to this Order shall be ports of entry for the purposes of the Immigration Act 1971.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

10th February 1987

SCHEDULE PORTS OF ENTRY

Seaports and Hoverports

Dover	Plymouth
Felixstowe	Portsmouth
Folkestone	Ramsgate
Harwich	Sheerness
Hull	Southampton
London	Tyne
Newhaven

Airports

Aberdeen	Leeds/Bradford
Belfast	Liverpool
Birmingham	Luton
Bournemouth (Hurn)	Manchester
Bristol	Newcastle
Cardiff (Wales)	Norwich
East Midlands	Prestwick
Edinburgh	Southampton
Gatwick–London	Southend
Glasgow	Stansted–London
Heathrow–London	Tees-side

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Under paragraph 26 of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971 the owners or agents of a ship or aircraft employed to carry passengers for reward are prohibited from arranging, without the approval of the Secretary of State, for the ship or aircraft to call at a port in the United Kingdom other than a designated port of entry for the purpose of disembarking passengers, if any of them require leave to enter the United Kingdom and have not been given leave, or for the purpose of embarking passengers unless the owners or agents have reasonable cause to believe all of them to be British citizens. An owner or agent who contravenes the provisions of paragraph 26 commits an offence under section 27 of the Act.

Under section 13(3) a person who is entitled to appeal against a refusal of leave to enter the United Kingdom may do so only if (in addition to holding an entry clearance or a work permit) he was refused leave at a designated port of entry.

This Order consolidates with amendments previous orders designating ports of entry for the purposes of the Act. The only changes of substance are the addition of Ramsgate to the list of Seaports and Hoverports and the deletion of Ramsgate Hoverport from that list and the addition of Leeds/Bradford to the list of Airports and the deletion of Lydd (Ferryfield) from that list.

(1)

1971 c. 77.

(2)

S.I. 1972/1668.

(3)

S.I. 1975/2221.

(4)

S.I.1979/1635.