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Section 5: Assisting asylum claimants, and persons seeking to obtain leave by deception.

Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 · 1996 c. 49View on legislation.gov.uk

In subsection (1) of section 25 of the 1971 Act (assisting illegal entry, and habouring), for the words from "the entry" to "illegal entrant" there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

After that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—

In subsection (5) of that section, for the words "Subsection (1)" there shall be substituted the words ." Subsection (1)(a) "

In subsection (6) of that section, for the words "subsection (1)" there shall be substituted the words ." subsection (1)(a) or (b) "

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