The Immigration Appeals (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 1991

Made: 8th July 1991

Laid before Parliament: 16th July 1991

Coming into force: 31st October 1991

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 22 of, and paragraph 25 of Schedule 2 to, the Immigration Act 1971[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], hereby makes the following Rules:–

Citation and commencement

1

These Rules may be cited as the Immigration Appeals (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 1991 and shall come into force on 31st October 1991.

Amendment of Immigration Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1984

2

In rule 27 of the Immigration Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1984, for “10 miles” there shall be substituted “16 kilometres”.

Signed

Mackay of Clashfern, C — 8th July 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Immigration Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1984 to substitute a measurement in kilometres for a measurement in miles in rule 27, in pursuance of the European Community Council Directive of 27th November 1989 amending Directive 80/181/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to units of measurement (89/617/EEC)

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1971 c. 77.

[^f00002]: Transfer of Functions (Immigration Appeals) Order 1987 (S.I.1987/465), article 2.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1984/2041.