Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3099 (C. 97)

IMMIGRATION

The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2000

Made

19th November 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 166(3) and 170(4) and (5) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999( 1 ), the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and interpretation

1. This Order may be cited as the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2000.

2. In this Order “the 1999 Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Commencement

3. The provisions of the 1999 Act specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order shall come into force on 11th December 2000, but where a particular purpose is specified in relation to any such provision in column 2 of that Schedule, the provision shall come into force on that date only for that purpose.

Amendment

4. With effect from 27th November 2000, the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2000( 2 ) is amended as follows—

(a) in article 2, after “1st January 2001” insert “, subject to the transitional provision contained in article 3,”; and

(b) after article 2 insert—

“ Transitional Provision

3. The provisions of the 1949 Act as they are in force on 31st December 2000 shall continue to apply in respect of any marriage, notice of which has been entered in the marriage notice book for—

(a) the registration district referred to in section 27(1)(a) or (2) of the 1949 Act, or

(b) each registration district referred to in section 27(1)(b) of the 1949 Act,

before 1st January 2001. ” .

5. With effect from 27th November 2000, the limitations on the taking effect of a variation and on a requirement to leave the United Kingdom contained in section 14(1) of the Immigration Act 1971( 3 ) and in paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993( 4 ) (as continued in force by paragraphs 2(5) and 3(4) of Schedule 2 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Commencement No. 6 and Consequential Provisions) Order 2000 ( 5 )) are to be disregarded in calculating, for the purposes of section 61 or 69(2) of the 1999 Act, whether, as a result of a decision, a person may be required to leave the United Kingdom within 28 days.

Barbara Roche

Minister of State

Home Office

19th November 2000

Article 2

THE SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2
Section 13 (Proof of identity of persons to be removed or deported).
Sections 141 to 144 (Fingerprinting, Attendance for fingerprinting, Destruction of fingerprints and Other methods of collecting data about physical characteristics).
Section 169(1) and (3).	So far as relating to the provisions of Schedules 14 and 16 commenced by this Order.
In Schedule 14, paragraph 61.
In Schedule 16 (Repeals), the entry relating to section 3 of the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993.