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Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002

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77 No removal while claim for asylum pending

(1) While a person’s claim for asylum is pending he may not be— (a) removed from the United Kingdom in accordance with a provision of the Immigration Acts, or (b) required to leave the United Kingdom in accordance with a provision of the Immigration Acts. (2) In this section— (a) “claim for asylum” means a claim by a person that it would be contrary to the United Kingdom’s obligations under the Refugee Convention to remove him from or require him to leave the United Kingdom, and (b) a person’s claim is pending until he is given notice of the Secretary of State’s decision on it. (2A) This section does not prevent a person being removed to, or being required to leave to go to, a State falling within subsection (2B). (2B) A State falls within this subsection if— (a) it is a place where a person’s life and liberty are not threatened by reason of the person’s race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, (b) it is a place from which a person will not be removed elsewhere other than in accordance with the Refugee Convention, (c) it is a place— (i) to which a person can be removed without their Convention rights under Article 3 (no torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment) being contravened, and (ii) from which a person will not be sent to another State in contravention of the person’s Convention rights, and (d) the person is not a national or citizen of the State. (2C) For the purposes of this section— (a) any State to which Part 2 or 3 of Schedule 3 to the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 for the time being applies— (i) is to be presumed to be a State falling within subsection (2B)(a) and (b), and (ii) is, unless the contrary is shown by a person to be the case in their particular circumstances, to be presumed to be a State falling within subsection (2B)(c)(i) and (ii); (b) any State to which Part 4 of that Schedule for the time being applies is to be presumed to be a State falling within subsection (2B)(a) and (b); (c) a reference to anything being done in accordance with the Refugee Convention is a reference to the thing being done in accordance with the principles of the Convention, whether or not by a signatory to it; (d) “State” includes any territory outside of the United Kingdom. (3) In this section, “Convention rights” means the rights identified as Convention rights by section 1 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (whether or not in relation to a State that is a party to the Convention); and “the Refugee Convention” means the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 and its Protocol. (4) Nothing in this section shall prevent any of the following while a claim for asylum is pending— (a) the giving of a direction for the claimant’s removal from the United Kingdom, (b) the making of a deportation order in respect of the claimant, or (c) the taking of any other interim or preparatory action. (5) Section 15 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33) (protection from removal or deportation) shall cease to have effect.

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77 No removal while claim for asylum pending

(1) While a person’s claim for asylum is pending he may not be— (a) removed from the United Kingdom in accordance with a provision of the Immigration Acts, or (b) required to leave the United Kingdom in accordance with a provision of the Immigration Acts. (2) In this section— (a) “claim for asylum” means a claim by a person that it would be contrary to the United Kingdom’s obligations under the Refugee Convention to remove him from or require him to leave the United Kingdom, and (b) a person’s claim is pending until he is given notice of the Secretary of State’s decision on it. (2A) This section does not prevent a person being removed to, or being required to leave to go to, a State falling within subsection (2B). (2B) A State falls within this subsection if— (a) it is a place where a person’s life and liberty are not threatened by reason of the person’s race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, (b) it is a place from which a person will not be removed elsewhere other than in accordance with the Refugee Convention, (c) it is a place— (i) to which a person can be removed without their Convention rights under Article 3 (no torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment) being contravened, and (ii) from which a person will not be sent to another State in contravention of the person’s Convention rights, and (d) the person is not a national or citizen of the State. (2C) For the purposes of this section— (a) any State to which Part 2 or 3 of Schedule 3 to the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 for the time being applies— (i) is to be presumed to be a State falling within subsection (2B)(a) and (b), and (ii) is, unless the contrary is shown by a person to be the case in their particular circumstances, to be presumed to be a State falling within subsection (2B)(c)(i) and (ii); (b) any State to which Part 4 of that Schedule for the time being applies is to be presumed to be a State falling within subsection (2B)(a) and (b); (c) a reference to anything being done in accordance with the Refugee Convention is a reference to the thing being done in accordance with the principles of the Convention, whether or not by a signatory to it; (d) “State” includes any territory outside of the United Kingdom. (3) In this section, “Convention rights” means the rights identified as Convention rights by section 1 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (whether or not in relation to a State that is a party to the Convention); and “the Refugee Convention” means the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 and its Protocol. (4) Nothing in this section shall prevent any of the following while a claim for asylum is pending— (a) the giving of a direction for the claimant’s removal from the United Kingdom, (b) the making of a deportation order in respect of the claimant, or (c) the taking of any other interim or preparatory action. (5) Section 15 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33) (protection from removal or deportation) shall cease to have effect.

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