25 Civil legal services for recipients of priority removal notices
Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (2022 c 36) | Legislation

25  Civil legal services for recipients of priority removal notices

(1)     In Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (civil legal services), after paragraph 31 (immigration: accommodation for asylum-seekers etc) insert—

“Immigration: recipients of priority removal notices
31ZA

(1)     Civil legal services provided, to an individual who has received a priority removal notice, in relation to—

(a)     the priority removal notice;

(b)     the individual's immigration status;

(c)     the lawfulness of the individual's removal from the United Kingdom;

(d)     immigration detention of the kinds mentioned in paragraph 25(1).

Condition applying to services described in sub-paragraph (1): overall time limit

(2)     Civil legal services described in sub-paragraph (1) may be provided for up to (but no more than) 7 hours.

(3)     If a person who has

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