EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make amendments to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. These amendments are consequential on the commencement of Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016.
Schedule 10 introduces a new framework for immigration bail, replacing a legal framework containing six different legal statuses (including immigration bail and temporary admission) with a single power of immigration bail.
Regulation 2 updates section 141(7)(b) of the 1999 Act (fingerprinting) so that it reflects the reporting conditions that may be imposed under the new immigration bail powers.
Regulation 3 amends various provisions of Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 so that references to temporary admission and temporary release – both being forms of legal status that are abolished by Schedule 10 – are replaced with references to immigration bail and to the powers under which immigration bail may be granted. It also omits and, where appropriate, replaces provisions that refer to legislation that Schedule 10 will repeal.