{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/14",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make further provision for the regulation of immigration into the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes.\n[10th May 1988]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended (2.10.2000) by 1999 c. 33, s. 65(1); S.I. 2000/2444, art. 2, Sch. 1Act modified (1.9.2001) by 2001 c. 17, s. 32(7) (with ss. 27(3), 39, 78); S.I. 2001/2161, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended in part (Isle of Man) (with modifications) (13.3.2008 for specified purposes, 1.5.2008 in so far as not already in force) by Immigration (Isle of Man) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/680), art. 10, Sch. 4 (with art. 5, Sch. 2) (as amended: (14.3.2019) by S.I. 2019/562, arts. 1, 5, 12); (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by S.I. 2020/1576, art. 9; and (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2020/1214, arts. 1, 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act extended in part (Jersey) (with modifications) (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(1) of the amending S.I.) by The Immigration (Jersey) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1281), art. 4, Sch. 2, Sch. 2A (with art. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act: power to amend conferred (28.4.2022 for specified purposes, 28.6.2022 in so far as not already in force) by Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (c. 36), ss. 82, 87(1)(4)(i); S.I. 2022/590, regs. 1(2), 2, Sch. 1 para. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act excluded (25.4.2024) by Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 (c. 8), ss. 2(5)(a), 5, 10(1) (with ss. 4, 10(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 12(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/14/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:48:47.258899+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."
}