Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2026.

Commencement

2. The following provisions of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025, so far as not already in force, come into force on 2nd February 2026—

(a)Sections 17 to 19 (online advertising of unlawful immigration services);

(b)Section 20 (offences committed outside the United Kingdom);

(c)Sections 30 to 36 (sharing of information);

(d)Section 43 (immigration advisers and immigration service providers) and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1, but only to the extent that they relate to the provisions referred to in paragraph (e) of this regulation;

(e)Schedule 1 (immigration advisers and immigration service providers)—

(i) paragraphs 2 and 3 (power to amend definition of “relevant matters”);

(ii)paragraphs 12 and 13 (fees);

(f)Section 51 (Refugee Convention: meaning of particularly serious crime);

(g)Section 57 (applicants for making of serious crime prevention orders and interim serious crime prevention orders), but only to the extent that it relates to the making of serious crime prevention orders.