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Section 61: Report on safe and legal routes

Illegal Migration Act 2023 · 2023 c. 37View 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This provision is repealed
It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

REPEALED on 2025-12-02 by Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025.

The text below is the provision as originally enacted.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.

The Secretary of State must, before the end of the relevant period—

prepare and publish a report on safe and legal routes by which persons may enter the United Kingdom, and
lay the report before Parliament.

The report must—

contain details of the safe and legal routes by which persons may enter the United Kingdom when the report is published,
contain details of any proposed additional safe and legal routes which have not come into operation at that time,
specify the routes within paragraph (a) or (b) which are or will be available to adults,
specify the routes within paragraph (a) or (b) which are or will be available to children, and
contain details of how routes within paragraph (a) or (b) may be accessed by persons who are eligible to use them.

In this section—

  • “adult” means a person who is aged 18 or over;

  • “child” means a person who is under the age of 18;

  • “the relevant period” means the period of 6 months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.

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