Citation and commencement and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Immigration (Isle of Man) (Amendment) Order 2026.

(2) The Order comes into force on the day after it is made.

(3) This Order extends to the Isle of Man.

Interpretation of the Order

2. In this Order, “ the principal Order ” means the Immigration (Isle of Man) Order 2008 ( 2 ).

Article 22 of the principal Order amended

3.—(1) Article 22 of the principal Order(3) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (2), after subparagraph (f) insert—

“(fa) section 38 (immigration health charge);

(fb)section 39 (related provision: charges for health services);”.

Schedule 9A to the principal Order amended (modifications subject to which the Immigration Act 2014 applies)

4. Schedule 9A to the principal Order is amended as follows.

5. After paragraph A4 insert —

““A4A. —

(1) Section 38 of the 2014 Act is modified as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), for “Secretary of State”, substitute “Minister”.

(3) In subsection (2), for “United Kingdom” in all three places where it occurs, substitute “Isle of Man”.

(4) In subsection (3)(c), for “Secretary of State”, substitute “Minister”.

(5) For subsection (4), substitute—

“(4) In specifying the amount of a charge under subsection (3)(b) the Minister—

(a)must (among other matters) have regard to the range of health services that are likely to be available free of charge to persons who have been given immigration permission; and

(b)may have regard to the amount of charge (and different amounts specified for different purposes) and provisions for exemptions, reduction, waiver or refund of part or all of such a charge specified from time to time in the United Kingdom or any part of the United Kingdom by the Secretary of State under an order made under section 38 of the Immigration Act 2014 (an Act of Parliament)(4).”

(6) In subsection (5), for “Consolidated Fund”, substitute “General Revenue of the Isle of the Man”.

(7) In subsection (6), in the definition of “health services”, for “England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland”, substitute “the Isle of Man”.

“A4B. —

(1) Section 39 of the 2014 Act is modified as follows.

(2) For Section 39, substitute —

Related provision: charges for health services

39.—(1) The reference in section 39 of the National Health Service Act 2001(5) (provision of services to non-residents) to persons not ordinarily resident in the Island includes (without prejudice to the generality of that reference) a reference to—

(a)persons who require leave to enter or remain in the Isle of Man but do not have it, and

(b)persons who have leave to enter or remain in the Isle of Man for a limited period unless that leave was granted by virtue of residence scheme immigration rules.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) “residence scheme immigration rules” has the meaning giving in paragraph 3A of Schedule 4 to the Immigration Act 1971 as it applies to the Island(6).””