Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 2243

The Immigration (Removal Directions) Regulations 2000

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"international service" has the meaning given by section 13(6) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987[3];

"ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation; and

"the tunnel system" has the meaning given by section 1(7) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987.

    (2) In these Regulations, a reference to a section number is a reference to a section of the Act.

Persons to whom directions may be given
     3. For the purposes of section 10(6)(a) (classes of person to whom directions may be given), the following classes of person are prescribed - 

(a) owners of ships;

(b) owners of aircraft;

(c) agents of ships;

(d) agents of aircraft;

(e) captains of ships about to leave the United Kingdom;

(f) captains of aircraft about to leave the United Kingdom; and

(g) persons operating an international service.

Requirements that may be imposed by directions
     4.  - (1) For the purposes of section 10(6)(b) (requirements that may be imposed by directions), the following kinds of requirements are prescribed - 

(a) in the case where directions are given to a captain of a ship or aircraft about to leave the United Kingdom, a requirement to remove the relevant person from the United Kingdom in that ship or aircraft;

(b) in the case where directions are given to a person operating an international service, a requirement to make arrangements for the removal of the relevant person through the tunnel system;

(c) in the case where directions are given to any other person who falls within a class prescribed in regulation 3, a requirement to make arrangements for the removal of the relevant person in a ship or aircraft specified or indicated in the directions; and

(d) in all cases, a requirement to remove the relevant person in accordance with arrangements to be made by an immigration officer.

    (2) Paragraph (1) only applies if the directions specify that the relevant person is to be removed to a country or territory being - 

(i) a country of which he is a national or citizen; or

(ii) a country or territory to which there is reason to believe that he will be admitted.

    (3) Paragraph (1)(b) only applies if the relevant person arrived in the United Kingdom through the tunnel system.

    (4) {t2} "Relevant person" means a person who may be removed from the United Kingdom in accordance with section 10(1).


Steve Bassam
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office
16th August 2000

[2] 1999 c. 33.back

[3] 1987 c. 53.back