{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-appeals-procedure-rules-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-appeals-procedure-rules-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1661",
  "legislation_title": "The Asylum Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-appeals-procedure-rules-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules—\n“the 1984 Rules” means the Immigration Appeals (Procedure) Rules 1984;\n“the 1971 Act” means the Immigration Act 1971;\n“the 1993 Act” means the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993;\n“asylum appeal” means any appeal made under any of the subsections (1) to (4) of section 8 of the 1993 Act (including any further appeal that is made in relation to such an appeal) and shall include any appeal which, by virtue of paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to that Act, shall be dealt with in the same proceedings as the appeal brought under any of those subsections;\n“special adjudicator” means an adjudicator designated under section 8(5) of the 1993 Act; and\n“the Tribunal” means the Immigration Appeal Tribunal.\n(2) In these Rules—\n(a) the time by which any act must be done shall be calculated in the manner provided in rule 32; and\n(b) an application or an appeal is determined when a decision is made as to whether the application should be granted or the appeal allowed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/2041."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1661/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:54:22.724855+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."
}