{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-tribunal-procedure-rules-2005/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/230",
  "legislation_title": "The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Procedure) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-tribunal-procedure-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the 2002 Act” means the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002;\n“the 2004 Act” means the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004;\n“appellant” means a person who has given a notice of appeal to the Tribunal against a relevant decision in accordance with these Rules;\n“appropriate appellate court” has the meaning given in sections 103B(5) and 103E(5) of the 2002 Act;\n“apropriate court” has the meaning given in section 103A(9) of the 2002 Act;\n“appropriate prescribed form” means the appropriate form in the Schedule to these Rules, or that form with any variations that the circumstances may require;\n“asylum claim” has the meaning given in section 113(1) of the 2002 Act;\n“business day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday, a bank holiday, 25th to 31st December or Good Friday;\n“determination”, in relation to an appeal, means a decision by the Tribunal in writing to allow or dismiss the appeal, and does not include a procedural, ancillary or preliminary decision;\n“the Immigration Acts” means the Acts referred to in section 44(1) of the 2004 Act;\n“immigration decision” means a decision of a kind listed in section 82(2) of the 2002 Act;\n“immigration rules” means the rules referred to in section 1(4) of the Immigration Act 1971;\n“order for reconsideration” means an order under section 103A(1) or any other statutory provision requiring the Tribunal to reconsider its decision on an appeal;\n“President” means the President of the Tribunal;\n“relevant decision” means a decision against which there is an exercisable right of appeal to the Tribunal;\n“respondent” means the decision maker specified in the notice of decision against which a notice of appeal has been given;\n“section 103A” means section 103A of the 2002 Act (Review of Tribunal’s decision) and “section 103A application” means an application under section 103A;\n“Tribunal” means the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal;\n“United Kingdom Representative” means the United Kingdom Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 77."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2840",
      "affecting_title": "The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) (No.2) Rules 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2840",
      "affecting_title": "The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) (No.2) Rules 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/2604",
      "affecting_title": "The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Rules 2014"
    },
    {
      "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/2006/2788",
      "affecting_title": "The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/230/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:10:40.981900+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."
}