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Explanatory note

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Regulation 2 prescribes the period for the purposes of section 17(4) of the UK Borders Act 2007. During this period, a person’s status as an asylum-seeker continues after his in-country appeal under section 82 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (“the 2002 Act”) or under section 2 of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 ceases to be pending, for the purposes of Part 6 (and section 4) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (support and accommodation for asylum seekers) and Part 2 of the 2002 Act (accommodation centres).