Amendments proposed to the Immigration and Asylum Bill, As Amended - continued	House of Commons
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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     62,     line     42     [Clause     101],     leave out 'an EEA national' and insert 'a national of an EEA State'.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     63,     line     7     [Clause     101],     leave out beginning to end of line 9.

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Mr Secretary Straw
Mr Hilton Dawson
Sir Norman Fowler
Mr James Clappison
Mr John Greenway
Mr Jeremy Corbyn

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Page     66,     line     29,     leave out Clause 108.

   

Sir Norman Fowler
Mr James Clappison
Mr John Greenway

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Page     66,     line     38     [Clause     108],     leave out 'may be' and insert 'are being'.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     74,     line     34     [Clause     118],     leave out from beginning to end of line 42.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     76,     line     17     [Clause     120],     leave out ', glove, footwear or headgear' and insert 'or glove'.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     77,     line     9     [Clause     120],     leave out ', glove, footwear or headgear' and insert 'or glove'.

   

Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     77,     line     26     [Clause     120],     leave out from beginning to end of line 33.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     84,     line     6     [Clause     124],     at end insert—

'(bb) if issued by a justice of the peace in Scotland, to the clerk of the district court for the commission area for which the justice of the peace was appointed;'.

   

Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     84,     line     8     [Clause     124],     leave out 'or (b)' and insert 'must be retained for 12 months by the justices' chief executive.

    (10A) A warrant issued under subsection (9)(b) or (bb)'.

   

Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     84,     line     28     [Clause     125],     at end insert—

    '( ) In the 1971 Act, in Schedule 2, after paragraph 25D insert—

    "25E. Section 28L applies for the purposes of this Schedule as it applies for the purposes of Part III." '.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     85,     line     26     [Clause     127],     after 'officer' insert 'on his arrival in the United Kingdom'.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     86,     line     20     [Clause     127],     at end insert—

    '( ) No fingerprints shall be taken from A if the immigration officer considers that A has a reasonable excuse for the failure concerned.'.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     90,     line     4     [Clause     134]     at end insert ';

(g) section 14 of the Conveyancing Act 1881;

(h) the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1892;

(i) the Business Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.'.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     94,     line     36     [Clause     144],     leave out '"twenty-one" substitute "15"' and insert '"said period of twenty-one days" substitute "waiting period in relation to each notice of marriage"'.

   

Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     94,     line     37     [Clause     144],     at end insert—

    '( ) In section 31 of the 1949 Act, after subsection (4) insert—

    "(4A) "The waiting period", in relation to a notice of marriage, means—
(a) the period of 15 days, or
(b) such shorter period as may be determined by the Registrar General under subsection (5A) or by a superintendent registrar under any provision of regulations made under subsection (5D),

    after the day on which the notice of marriage was entered in the marriage notice book."'.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     95,     line     2     [Clause     144],     leave out ',(2) and (4)' and insert 'and (2)'.

   

Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     95,     line     4     [Clause     144],     leave out 'references' and insert 'reference'.

   

Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     95,     line     4     [Clause     144],     leave out '75(2)(d) and (3)(a) are' and insert '75(3)(a) is'.

   

Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     95,     line     5     [Clause     144],     leave out 'references' and insert 'a reference'.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     98,     line     32     [Clause     149],     after '82(3),' insert—

'( ) section 130,'.

   

Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     98,     line     35     [Clause     149],     at end insert—

    '(3A) No regulations are to be made under—

(a) section (Treatment of certain overstayers), or

(b) section 60(3),

    unless a draft of the regulations has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House.'.

   

Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     98,     line     37     [Clause     149],     after '(3)' insert 'or (3A)'.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     99,     line     9     [Clause     150],     at end insert—

' "EEA State" means a State which is a Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as it has effect for the time being;'.

   

Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     99,     line     32     [Clause     150],     at end insert—

' "port";'.

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Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     100,     line     5     [Clause     153],     at end insert—

    '(1A) Section 80(1) comes into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint and section 101 comes into force with it.'.

   

Mr Secretary Straw

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Page     100,     line     8     [Clause     153],     after 'Act' insert ', except section 7 and paragraph 6 of Schedule 13 (which come into force in accordance with section (Treatment of certain overstayers)),'.

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NEW SCHEDULES

   

Mr Secretary Straw

NS1

To move the following Schedule—

'Asylum Support: Interim Provisions

Support before the appointed day

    1.—(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision requiring prescribed local authorities to provide support, during the interim period, to asylum-seekers and their dependants who are destitute.

    (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), in Northern Ireland, a Health and Social Services Board established under Article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 is to be treated as a local authority.

    2. The regulations must provide for the question whether a person is destitute to be determined by the local authority concerned.

    3. Subsections (3) and (5) to (8) of section 80 apply for the purposes of the regulations as they apply for the purposes of that section, but for the references in subsections (5) and (7) to the Secretary of State substitute references to the local authority concerned.

    4. The regulations may prescribe circumstances in which support for a destitute person—

(a) must be provided; or

(b) must or may be refused.

    5. The regulations may provide that support—

(a) is to be provided in prescribed ways;

(b) is not to be provided in prescribed ways.

    6. The regulations may make provision for—

(a) the determination by the Secretary of State of the maximum number of asylum-seekers to whom a local authority is required under the regulations to provide support; and

(b) the referral by one local authority to another of a claim for support made to it under the regulations if the referring authority is providing support to a number of asylum-seekers in excess of that maximum number.

    7.—(1) The regulations may make provision for the referral of a claim for support made to the Secretary of State to such prescribed local authority as he may specify in a direction.

    (2) A direction may not specify a local authority which is providing support to a number of asylum-seekers in excess of the maximum number determined in accordance with provision made by virtue of paragraph 6(a).

    (3) The regulations may make provision for the payment by the Secretary of State of any reasonable travel or subsistence expenses incurred as a result of a referral made by him as a result of provision made by virtue of sub-paragraph (1).

    8. The regulations may make provision requiring prescribed local authorities or other prescribed bodies to give reasonable assistance to local authorities providing support under the regulations.

    9. The regulations may make provision for the procedure for making and determining claims for support.

    10. The regulations may make provision for a person who has received, or is receiving, support from a local authority under any other prescribed enactment to be taken to have been accepted for support under the regulations by a prescribed local authority.

    11. A person entitled to claim support under the regulations is not entitled to claim support under any other prescribed enactment.

Definitions

    12. "The appointed day" means the day appointed under section 153(1A).

    13. "The interim period" means the period beginning with day on which paragraph 1 comes into force and ending on the appointed day.'.

Prepared 10 Jun 1999