SCHEDULE 9 Asylum Support: Interim Provisions
Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (1999 c 33) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 9 Asylum Support: Interim Provisions

Section 95(13)

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(1)     The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision requiring prescribed local authorities or local authorities falling within a prescribed description of authority to provide support, during the interim period, to eligible persons.

(2)     “Eligible persons†means—

(a)     asylum-seekers, or

(b)     their dependants,

who appear to be destitute or to be likely to become destitute within such period as may be prescribed.

(3)     For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), in Northern Ireland, a Health and Social Services Board established under Article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 [a Health and Social Care trust established under Article 10 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (SI 1991/194 (NI 1))] is to be treated as a local authority.

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(1)     The regulations must provide for the question whether a person is an eligible person to be determined by the local authority concerned.

(2)     The regulations may make provision for support to be provided, before the determination of that question, to a person making a claim for support under the regulations by the Secretary of State or such local authority

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