Section 3: Jurisdiction: bail.

Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 · 1997 c. 68View on legislation.gov.uk

In the case of a person to whom subsection (2) below applies, the provisions of Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016 specified in Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect with the modifications set out there.

This subsection applies to a person who is detained under the Immigration Act 1971 or the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 if—

the Secretary of State certifies that his detention is necessary in the interests of national security,
he is detained following a decision to refuse him leave to enter the United Kingdom on the ground that his exclusion is in the interests of national security, or
he is detained following a decision to make a deportation order against him on the ground that his deportation is in the interests of national security.

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