The Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Made10th January 2001

Laid before Parliament11th January 2001

Coming into force12th January 2001

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 60(6) and 166(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 19991, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 12th January 2001.

Amendment of regulation 3 of the Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) (No. 2) Regulations 20002.

The Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) (No. 2) Regulations 20002 shall be amended as follows:

(a)

in regulation 3(1)(a), for the figure “£500” there shall be substituted the figure “£125”; and

(b)

in regulation 3(1)(b), for the figure “£150” there shall be substituted the figure “£50”.

Jack Straw

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

10th January 2001

(This note is not part of the Regulation)

These Regulations amend the Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) (No. 2) Regulations 2000. They reduce the fee that is to be paid by a person who wishes to exercise a right of appeal as a family visitor from £500 to £125 for those who elect an oral hearing; and from £150 to £50 in all other cases.