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Families

131. Members of the family of a person to whom paragraphs 127-130 apply should be granted extensions of stay or issued with residence permits in the same terms as those relating to that person at the time in question. The family should be regarded as consisting of the person's spouse, their children under 21, their other children and grandchildren if still dependent, and their dependent parents and grandparents.

Settlement

132. The time limit on the stay of the following categories of persons should be removed:

(a) a person who has been continuously resident in the United Kingdom for at least 3 years, has been in employment in the United Kingdom or any other member country of the European Economic Community for the preceding 12 months, and has reached the age of entitlement to a State retirement pension:

(b) a person who has ceased to be employed owing to a permanent inca- pacity for work arising out of an accident at work or an occupational disease entitling him to a State disability pension;

(c) a person who has been continuously resident in the United Kingdom for more than 2 years, and who has ceased to be employed owing to a permanent incapacity for work;

(d) any member of the family (see paragraph 131) of a person in category

(a), (b) or (c) above:

(e) any member of the family of a person who, after residing continuously in the United Kingdom for at least 2 years, dies as the result of an accident at work or an occupational disease.

PART XI: DEPORTATION

Ambit of the power to deport

133. Under sections 3(5)–(6) and 5(1)–(4) of the Act the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, make a deportation order requiring a person who is not patrial to leave and to remain thereafter out of the United Kingdom:

(i) if the person has failed to comply with a condition attached to his

leave to enter or remains beyond the authorised time;

(ii) if the Secretary of State deems the person's deportation to be con-

ducive to the public good;

(iii) if the person is the wife or the child under 18 of a person ordered to

be deported;

(iv) if the person, after reaching the age of 17, is convicted of an offence for which he is punishable with imprisonment and the court recom- mends deportation.

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