Section 10: Visitors, short-term and prospective students and their dependants

Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 · 1993 c. 23View on legislation.gov.uk

This provision is repealed
It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

REPEALED on 2000-10-02 by Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

The text below is the provision as originally enacted. It is historical and may not include amendments made before this status change. View the enacted source.

In section 13 of the 1971 Act (appeals against exclusion from United Kingdom), after subsection (3) there shall be inserted—

(3A)A person who seeks to enter the United Kingdom— (a) as a visitor, or (b) in order to follow a course of study of not more than six months duration for which he has been accepted, or (c) with the intention of studying but without having been accepted for any course of study, or (d) as a dependant of a person within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above, shall not be entitled to appeal against a refusal of an entry clearance and shall not be entitled to appeal against a refusal of leave to enter unless he held a current entry clearance at the time of the refusal. (3AA) The Secretary of State shall appoint a person, not being an officer of his, to monitor, in such manner as the Secretary of State may determine, refusals of entry clearance in cases where there is, by virtue of subsection (3A) above, no right of appeal; and the person so appointed shall make an annual report on the discharge of his functions to the Secretary of State who shall lay a copy of it before each House of Parliament. (3AB) The Secretary of State may pay to a person appointed under subsection (3AA) above such fees and allowances as he may with the approval of the Treasury determine.

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