{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1971/section-31A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1971/section-31A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/77",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1971",
  "path": "section/31A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31A",
  "heading": "Procedural requirements as to applications.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "repealed",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 31A inserted (22.5.2000 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.8.2003) by 1999 c. 33, ss. 165, 170(4); S.I. 2000/1282, art. 2, Sch.; S.I. 2003/1862, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 31A repealed (29.2.2008) by Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c. 13), ss. 50(3)(a), 61, 62, Sch. 3; S.I. 2008/310, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/77/section/31A",
    "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."
}