{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-appeals-procedure-rules-2000/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-appeals-procedure-rules-2000/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2333",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration and Asylum Appeals (Procedure) Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-appeals-procedure-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules—\n“the 1971 Act” means the Immigration Act 1971;\n“the 1993 Act” means the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993;\n“the 1996 Act” means the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996;\n“the 1999 Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;\n“appellate authority” means the adjudicator or the Tribunal, as the case may be;\n“appeal” means, subject to rule 4, any appeal under Part IV of the 1999 Act;\n“appellant” has the meaning given in Parts II and III of these Rules and includes an applicant for bail;\n“appropriate prescribed form” means the appropriate form in the Schedule to these Rules and those forms, or similar forms, may be used with any variations that the circumstances may require;\n“authorised advocate”—\n(a) in relation to England and Wales, has the meaning given in section 119(1) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;\n(b) in relation to Scotland, means a solicitor or advocate; and\n(c) in relation to Northern Ireland, means a solicitor or barrister;\n“Chief Adjudicator” includes an adjudicator nominated by the Chief Adjudicator under paragraph 6(2)(a) of Schedule 3 to the 1999 Act;\n“determination” means the decision of the appellate authority to allow or dismiss an appeal and the reasons for that decision;\n“entry clearance officer” means a person having authority to grant an entry clearance on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom;\n“family visitor appeal” means an appeal made under section 59 by a person who is a family visitor as defined by regulations made under section 60;\n“member” means a member of the Tribunal;\n“officer” means an immigration officer or an entry clearance officer;\n“party” has the meaning given in rule 29;\n“President” means the President of the Tribunal;\n“previous appeals provisions” means Part II of the 1971 Act, section 8 of the 1993 Act or section 3 of the 1996 Act;\n“supplementary grounds of refusal” means the reasons given for maintaining the decision being appealed against after consideration of the additional grounds required under section 74(4); and\n“Tribunal” means the Immigration Appeal Tribunal.\n(2) In these Rules, a section referred to by number alone is a reference to a section of the 1999 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added (7.1.2002)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/4014",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration and Asylum Appeals (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2333/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:31:31.708773+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."
}