Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 2698 (C. 76)
IMMIGRATION
The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2000
Made
1st October 2000
In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 166(3) and 170(4) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999( 1 ), the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2000.
(2) In this Order—
“the 1949 Act” means the Marriage Act 1949( 2 );
“the 1969 Act” means the Family Law Reform Act 1969( 3 );
“the 1970 Act” means the Marriage (Registrar General’s Licence) Act 1970( 4 );
“the 1999 Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
Commencement
2. The provisions of the 1999 Act specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order shall come into force on 1st January 2001 but where a particular purpose is specified in relation to any such provision in column 2 of that Schedule, the provision concerned shall come into force on that date only for that purpose.
Jack Straw
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
1st October 2000
Article 2
THE SCHEDULE
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| Section 24 (Reporting suspicious marriages) | |
| Sections 160 to 163 (Registrar’s Certificates: Procedure). | |
| Section 169(1) and (3) (Schedules 14 and 16). | Commenced for the purposes of the provisions of Schedules 14 and 16 commenced by this Order. |
| In Schedule 14, paragraphs 1 to 32, 37 to 42 and 77. | |
| In Schedule 16 (Repeals) the entries relating to the 1949 Act, the 1969 Act and the 1970 Act. |