Article 5 Nature of leave granted by virtue of article 3

A person who has leave to enter by virtue of article 3 is to be treated for the purposes of the Immigration Acts and the immigration rules—

(a)

as if that person had been given the leave by notice in accordance with section 4 of the 1971 Act (administration of control)^f1, and

(b)

as if the leave had been given before that person’s arrival in the United Kingdom or entry into the control zone.

Annotations

f1: Section 4 was amended by section 39(6) of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to, the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61), paragraph 45 of Schedule 14 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33), section 62(2) of the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19) and S.I. 1993/1813.