{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1971/schedule-2/paragraph-5B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1971/schedule-2/paragraph-5B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/77",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1971",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may direct—\n(a) an owner or agent of a ship or aircraft, or\n(b) a person concerned in the management of a port,\nto make arrangements for designated persons to exercise a specified function, or a function of a specified description, in relation to persons of a specified description.\n(2) A direction under this paragraph must specify—\n(a) the port where, and\n(b) the date (or dates) and time (or times) when,\na function is to be exercised under the arrangements.\n(3) A direction under this paragraph must be in writing.\n(4) A direction under this paragraph may specify a description of persons by reference, in particular, to—\n(a) the destination to which persons are travelling;\n(b) the route by which persons are travelling;\n(c) the date and time when the persons are travelling.\n(5) In this paragraph—\n“function” means a function under this Schedule;\n“specified” means specified in a direction under this paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5B and cross-heading inserted (28.7.2014) by Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22), s. 75(3), Sch. 8 para. 6; S.I. 2014/1820, art. 3(bb)"
    }
  ],
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    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/19",
      "affecting_title": "Immigration Act 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/19",
      "affecting_title": "Immigration Act 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2023/37",
      "affecting_title": "Illegal Migration Act 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2023/37",
      "affecting_title": "Illegal Migration Act 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded in part by 2002 c. 41, s. 62(3A) (as inserted)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2023/37",
      "affecting_title": "Illegal Migration Act 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/77/schedule/2/paragraph/5B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:29.102045+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."
}