{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-treatment-of-claimants-etc-act-2004/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-treatment-of-claimants-etc-act-2004/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/19",
  "legislation_title": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc. ) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-treatment-of-claimants-etc-act-2004",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Unification of appeal system",
  "text": "(1) For section 81 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41) (appeals: adjudicators) substitute—\n“Appeal to Tribunal\nThe Asylum and Immigration Tribunal\n81 (1) There shall be a tribunal to be known as the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.\n(2) Schedule 4 (which makes provision about the Tribunal) shall have effect.\n(3) A reference in this Part to the Tribunal is a reference to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.”\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The following provisions of that Act shall cease to have effect—\n(a) sections 100 to 103 (Immigration Appeal Tribunal), and\n(b) Schedule 5(Immigration Appeal Tribunal).\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) Schedule 2 (which makes amendments consequential on this section, and transitional provision) shall have effect.\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 26(2) repealed (20.10.2014) by Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22), s. 75(3), Sch. 9 para. 60 table; S.I. 2014/2771, art. 2(e) (with arts. 9-11) (as amended (2.3.2015 and 6.4.2015) by S.I. 2015/371, arts. 1(2)(3), 7, 8; and with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/2928, art. 2 (which S.I. is revoked (6.4.2015) by S.I. 2015/371, arts. 1(3), 9))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 26(3) repealed (20.10.2014) by Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22), s. 75(3), Sch. 9 para. 60 table; S.I. 2014/2771, art. 2(e) (with arts. 9-11) (as amended (2.3.2015 and 6.4.2015) by S.I. 2015/371, arts. 1(2)(3), 7, 8; and with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/2928, art. 2 (which S.I. is revoked (6.4.2015) by S.I. 2015/371, arts. 1(3), 9))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 26(4) repealed (15.2.2010) by The Transfer of Functions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/21), art. 1, Sch. 3 (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 26(6) repealed (15.2.2010) by The Transfer of Functions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/21), art. 1, Sch. 3 (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 26(8)-(10) repealed (15.2.2010) by The Transfer of Functions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/21), art. 1, Sch. 3 (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26(1)-(5)(7)-(10) in force at 4.4.2005 by S.I. 2005/565, art. 2(a) (with arts. 3-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 26(6) in force at 4.4.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/565, art. 2(b) (with arts. 3-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 26(6) in force at 30.4.2007 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2007/845, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/19/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:07.336323+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."
}