Section 78: No removal while appeal pending

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 · 2002 c. 41View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 4: Detention and Removal

While a person's appeal under section 82(1) is pending he may not be—

removed from the United Kingdom in accordance with a provision of the Immigration Acts, or
required to leave the United Kingdom in accordance with a provision of the Immigration Acts.

In this section "pending" has the meaning given by section 104.

Nothing in this section shall prevent any of the following while an appeal is pending—

the giving of a direction for the appellant's removal from the United Kingdom,
the making of a deportation order in respect of the appellant (subject to section 79), or
the taking of any other interim or preparatory action.

This section applies only to an appeal brought while the appellant is in the United Kingdom in accordance with section 92.

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