{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-appeals-act-1993/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-appeals-act-1993/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/23",
  "legislation_title": "Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-appeals-act-1993",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Protection of claimants from deportation etc.",
  "text": "During the period beginning when a person makes a claim for asylum and ending when the Secretary of State gives him notice of the decision on the claim, he may not be removed from, or required to leave, the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6 omitted (retrospective to 26.7.1993) by virtue of 1999 c. 33, ss. 169(1), 170(3)(s), Sch. 14 para. 102"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 6 excluded (1.9.1996) by 1996 c. 49, s. 2(1); S.I. 1996/2053, art. 2, Sch. Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/23/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:05.930030+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}