2007 No. 3102
immigration

The Asylum Support (Prescribed Period following Appeal) Regulations 2007

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(5) of the UK Borders Act 20071.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Asylum Support (Prescribed Period following Appeal) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force at 2pm on 31st October 2007.

Prescribed period2.

The prescribed period for the purposes of section 17(4) of the UK Borders Act 2007 (support for failed asylum-seekers) is –

(a)

where an appeal has been disposed of by being allowed, 28 days; and

(b)

in all other cases, 21 days.

Liam Byrne
Minister of State

Home Office

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Regulation 2 prescribes the period for the purposes of section 17(4) of the UK Borders Act 2007. During this period, a person’s status as an asylum-seeker continues after his in-country appeal under section 82 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (“the 2002 Act”) or under section 2 of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 ceases to be pending, for the purposes of Part 6 (and section 4) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (support and accommodation for asylum seekers) and Part 2 of the 2002 Act (accommodation centres).