EN.
IMALGRATION RULES
The Home Secretary has, with effect from 1 January 1983, made changes in the rules laid down by him as to the practice to be followed in the administration of the Immigration Act 1971 for regulating entry into and the stay of persone in the United Kingdom, and contained in the statement laid before Parliament on 20 February 1980 (as amended). This statement contains the rules as so
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changed and replaces the statements laid before Parliament on 20 February 1980 (as amended), except to the extent indicated in paragraphs
transitional provisions7.
Interpretation
1. In these rules "the Act" means the Immigration Act 1971 and "the 1951 Act"
means the British Nationality Act 1981; "United Kingdom" passport hears
the meaning it has in the Immigration Act 1971;"Immigration Officer includes a Customs Officer acting as an Immigration Officer; and "passenger" means any Commonwealth citizen or British protected person who is required by the Act to have leave to enter and any foreign national (including a stateless person) but does not include a member of the crew of a ship, aircraft, hover- craft or hydrofoil. "Department of Employment" includes where appropriate the equivalent Government Department for Northern Ireland. A person is "settled in the United Kingdom" when he is ordinarily resident here without having entered or remained in breach of the immigration laws, and is free from any restriction on the period for which he may remain. A person is also settled here if, despite having entered or remained in breach of the immigration laws, he has subsequently entered lawfully or has been lawfully granted leave to remain, is ordinarily resident here, and is free from any restriction on the period for which he may remain.
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The rules contained in this statement, except those in Part XI, do not, however, extend to citizens of the Irish Republic, who because the Republic forms part of the Common Travel Area ( see paragraph & are admitted freely
8 ) to the United Kingdom, whether coming from within or outside that Area, except in cases where the Secretary of State, decides that the exclusion of a parti-
cular person is conducive to the public good. *But a person entitled to an exemption under section 8 of the Act (otherwise than as a member of the home forces) is not to be regarded as settled in the United Kingdom except in so far as section 8(5) so provides.