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Enforced by: Home Office
Status: Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling: Imprisonment 1 of 4 obligations carry imprisonment (5 years). 2 carry different penalties and 1 has no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person2 Employer1 Landlord1

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

Employer — also bound by 701 other Acts

The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 241 duties

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 120 duties

TULRCA 1992 72 duties

Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 54 duties

Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 53 duties

Landlord — also bound by 238 other Acts

Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 74 duties

Housing Act 1985 55 duties

Housing Act 1996 30 duties

The Service Charges (Consultation Requirements) (England) Regulations 2003 27 duties

The Service Charges (Consultation Requirements) (Wales) Regulations 2004 26 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.021 Offence Imprisonment

Employ a worker who is not allowed to work in the UKEmployer

s.032 Passenger and crew information: police powers Imprisonment

Provide passenger and crew information to the police upon requestAny Person

s.033 Freight information: police powers Regulated

Provide freight information to the police upon requestLandlord

s.041 Section 40: supplemental Imprisonment

Obstruct or assault immigration officer exercising powers under section 40Any Person

62 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Variation of leave to enter or remain

s.002 Removal

s.003 Grounds of appeal

s.004 Entry clearance

s.005 Failure to provide documents

s.006 Refusal of leave to enter

s.007 Deportation

s.008 Legal aid

s.009 Abandonment of appeal

s.010 Grants

s.011 Continuation of leave

s.012 Asylum and human rights claims: definition

s.013 Appeal from within United Kingdom: certification of unfounded claim

s.014 Consequential amendments

s.015 Penalty

s.016 Objection

s.017 Appeal

s.018 Enforcement

s.019 Code of practice

s.020 Orders

s.022 Offence: bodies corporate, &c.

s.023 Discrimination: code of practice

s.024 Immigration bail

s.025 Interpretation

s.026 Repeal

s.027 Documents produced or found

s.028 Fingerprinting

s.029 Attendance for fingerprinting

s.030 Proof of right of abode

s.031 Provision of information to immigration officers

s.032 Regulations requiring information to be provided to police

s.032 Penalty for breach of section 32 or 32A

s.034 Offence

s.035 Power of Revenue and Customs to obtain information

s.036 Duty to share information

s.037 Information sharing: code of practice

s.038 Disclosure of information for security purposes

s.039 Disclosure to law enforcement agencies

s.040 Searches: contracting out

s.042 Information: embarking passengers

s.043 Accommodation

s.044 Failed asylum-seekers: withdrawal of support

s.045 Integration loans

s.046 Inspection of detention facilities

s.047 Removal: persons with statutorily extended leave

s.048 Removal: cancellation of leave

s.049 Capacity to make nationality application

s.050 Procedure

s.051 Fees

s.052 Fees: supplemental

s.053 Arrest pending deportation

s.054 Refugee Convention: construction

s.055 Refugee Convention: certification

s.056 Deprivation of citizenship

s.057 Deprivation of right of abode

s.058 Acquisition of British nationality, &c.

s.059 Detained persons: national minimum wage

s.060 Money

s.061 Repeals

s.062 Commencement

s.063 Extent

s.064 Citation

Schedules

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23 other schedules

s.sch001 Immigration and Asylum Appeals: Consequential Amendments

s.sch001 The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (appeals) shall be...

s.sch001 In section 108(1)(a) (forged document: proceedings in private) for “or...

s.sch001 In section 112 (regulations and orders) in subsection (5) for...

s.sch001 In section 57A(5) of the Race Relations Act 1976 (discrimination...

s.sch001 In section 40A(3) of the British Nationality Act 1981 (deprivation...

s.sch001 In section 2 of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act...

s.sch001 In section 72(9) (serious criminal) after “, 83” insert “...

s.sch001 In section 85(4) (matters to be considered) for “or 83(2)”...

s.sch001 In section 86(1) (determination of appeal) for “or 83.” substitute...

s.sch001 In section 87(1) (successful appeal: direction) for “or 83” substitute...

s.sch001 In section 97(1) and (3) (national security, &c.) for “or...

s.sch001 In section 103A(1) (review of Tribunal's decision) for “or 83”...

s.sch001 In section 103E(1) (appeal from Tribunal sitting as panel) for...

s.sch001 In section 106(1)(a) and (b) (rules) for “or 83” substitute...

s.sch002 Fees: Consequential Amendments

s.sch002 In section 41 of the British Nationality Act 1981 (regulations...

s.sch002 Section 42A of the British Nationality Act 1981 (registration and...

s.sch002 Sections 5 and 27 of the Immigration and Asylum Act...

s.sch002 In section 10(2) (right of abode: certificate of entitlement)—

s.sch002 Section 122(fee for work permit, &c.) shall cease to have...

s.sch002 (1) Section 42 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of...

s.sch003 Repeals

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Connected legislation

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