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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/560",
  "legislation_title": "The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Fast Track Procedure) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-tribunal-fast-track-procedure-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules, “the Principal Rules” means the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Procedure) Rules 2005.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), words and expressions used in these Rules which are defined in rule 2 of the Principal Rules have the same meaning in these Rules as in the Principal Rules.\n(3) In these Rules, and in any provision of the Principal Rules which applies by virtue of these Rules, “business day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday, a bank holiday, 24th to 31st December, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday or the Tuesday after the last Monday in May.\n(4) In a provision of the Principal Rules which applies by virtue of these Rules, a reference to an “appropriate prescribed form” means, in relation to a notice of appeal or an application notice for permission to appeal to the appropriate appellate court, the appropriate form in Schedule 1 to these Rules, or that form with any variations that the circumstances may require.\n(5) Where a provision of the Principal Rules applies by virtue of these Rules—\n(a) any reference in that provision to the Principal Rules is to be interpreted as including a reference to these Rules; and\n(b) any reference in that provision to a specific Part or rule in the Principal Rules is to be interpreted as including a reference to any equivalent Part or rule in these Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/230."
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  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/21",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfer of Functions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Order 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/2789",
      "affecting_title": "The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Fast Track Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/2604",
      "affecting_title": "The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Rules 2014"
    }
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  "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."
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