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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999/section-96",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/33",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration and Asylum Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999",
  "path": "section/96",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "96",
  "heading": "Ways in which support may be provided.",
  "text": "(1) Support may be provided under section 95—\n(a) by providing accommodation appearing to the Secretary of State to be adequate for the needs of the supported person and his dependants (if any);\n(b) by providing what appear to the Secretary of State to be essential living needs of the supported person and his dependants (if any);\n(c) to enable the supported person (if he is the asylum-seeker) to meet what appear to the Secretary of State to be expenses (other than legal expenses or other expenses of a prescribed description) incurred in connection with his claim for asylum;\n(d) to enable the asylum-seeker and his dependants to attend bail proceedings in connection with his detention under any provision of the Immigration Acts; or\n(e) to enable the asylum-seeker and his dependants to attend bail proceedings in connection with the detention of a dependant of his under any such provision.\n(2) If the Secretary of State considers that the circumstances of a particular case are exceptional, he may provide support under section 95 in such other ways as he considers necessary to enable the supported person and his dependants (if any) to be supported.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) But the Secretary of State may by order provide for subsection (3) not to apply—\n(a) in all cases, for such period as may be specified;\n(b) in such circumstances as may be specified;\n(c) in relation to specified categories of person; or\n(d) in relation to persons whose accommodation is in a specified locality.\n(5) The Secretary of State may by order repeal subsection (3).\n(6) “Specified” means specified in an order made under subsection (4).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 96(3) repealed (8.4.2002) by The Asylum Support (Repeal) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/782), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 96(4)-(6) cease to have effect (7.11.2002) and repealed (prosp.) by Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41), ss. 61(a), 161, Sch. 9 (with s. 159)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 96(1)(b): power to restrict conferred (7.11.2002) by Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41), s. 43 (with s. 159)"
    }
  ],
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      "type": "substituted",
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      "affecting_title": "Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/33/section/96",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:34.566084+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."
}