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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-jersey-order-2021/schedule-1A/part-IV",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2021/1281",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Jersey) Order 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-jersey-order-2021",
  "path": "schedule/1A/part/IV",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY",
  "text": "General provisions as to Orders in Council, etc.\n32.—(1) Any power conferred by Part I of this Act to make an Order in Council, an enactment requiring to be laid before the States or order (other than a deportation order) or to give any directions includes power to revoke or vary the Order in Council, enactment, order or directions.\n(2) Any document purporting to be an order, notice or direction made or given by the Minister for the purposes of the Immigration Acts and to be signed by him or on his behalf, and any document purporting to be a certificate of the Minister so given and to be signed by him or on his behalf, shall be received in evidence, and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be made or issued by him.\n(3) Prima facie evidence of any such order, notice, direction or certificate as aforesaid may, in any legal proceedings or other proceedings under the Immigration Acts, be given by the production of a document bearing a certificate purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Minister and stating that the document is a true copy of the order, notice, direction or certificate.\n(4) Where an order under section 8(2) above applies to persons specified in a schedule to the order, or any directions of the Minister given for the purposes of the Immigration Acts apply to persons specified in a schedule to the directions, prima facie evidence of the provisions of the order or directions other than the schedule and of any entry contained in the schedule may, in any legal proceedings or other proceedings under the Immigration Acts, be given by the production of a document purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Minister and stating that the document is a true copy of the said provisions and of the relevant entry.\nInterpretation.\n33.—(1) For purposes of this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires—\n“aircraft” includes hovercraft and “port” includes airport;\n“captain” means master (of a ship) or commander (of an aircraft);\n“certificate of entitlement” means a certificate under section 10 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 that a person has the right of abode in Jersey;\n“Convention adoption” has the same meaning as in the Adoption (Jersey) Law 1961;\n“crew”, in relation to a ship or aircraft, means all persons actually employed in the working or service of the ship or aircraft, including the captain, and “member of the crew” shall be construed accordingly;\n“entrant” means a person entering or seeking to enter Jersey and “illegal entrant” means a person—\n(a) unlawfully entering or seeking to enter in breach of a deportation order or of the immigration laws, or\n(b) entering or seeking to enter by means which include deception by another person, and includes also a person who has entered as mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) above;\n“entry clearance” means a visa, entry certificate or other document which, in accordance with the immigration rules, is to be taken as evidence or the requisite evidence of a person’s eligibility, though not a British citizen, for entry into Jersey (but does not include a work permit);\n“Guernsey” means the Bailiwick of Guernsey;\n“immigration laws” means this Act and any law for purposes similar to this Act which is for the time being or has (before or after the passing of this Act) been in force in any part of the United Kingdom and Islands;\n“immigration rules” means the rules for the time being laid down as mentioned in section 3(2) above;\n“the Islands” means the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and “the United Kingdom and Islands” means the United Kingdom and the Islands taken together;\n“legally adopted” means adopted in pursuance of an order made by any court in the United Kingdom and Islands, under a Convention adoption or by any adoption declared by the Royal Court as an overseas adoption within the meaning of the Adoption (Jersey) Law 1961;\n“limited leave” and “indefinite leave” means respectively leave under this Act to enter or remain in Jersey which is, and one which is not, limited as to duration;\n“the Minister” means the Minister for Home Affairs;\n“settled” shall be construed in accordance with subsection (2A) below;\n“ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation;\n“United Kingdom passport” means a current passport issued by the Government of the United Kingdom, or by the Lieutenant-Governor of any of the Islands, or by the Government of any territory which is for the time being a British overseas territory;\n“work permit” means a permit indicating, in accordance with the immigration rules, that a person named in it is eligible, though not a British citizen, for entry into Jersey for the purpose of taking employment.\n(1A) A reference to being an owner of a vehicle, ship or aircraft includes a reference to being any of a number of persons who jointly own it.\n(2) It is hereby declared that, except as otherwise provided in this Act, a person is not to be treated for the purposes of any provision of this Act as ordinarily resident in Jersey or elsewhere in the United Kingdom and Islands at a time when he is there in breach of the immigration laws.\n(2A) Subject to section 8(5) above, references to a person being settled in Jersey are references to his being ordinarily resident there without being subject under the immigration laws to any restriction on the period for which he may remain.\n(3) The ports of entry for purposes of this Act, and the ports of exit for purposes of any Order in Council under section 3(7) above, shall be such places as the States may by Act designate.\n(4) A reference in this Act and in any of the Immigration Acts to the grant or issue of a warrant by the Bailiff shall be taken to include reference to the grant or issue of that warrant by a Jurat.\n(5) This Act shall not be taken to supersede or impair any power exercisable by Her Majesty in relation to aliens by virtue of Her prerogative.\nShort title.\n37. This Act may be cited as the Immigration Act 1971.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1A Pt. IV comes into force in accordance with art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1281/schedule/1A/part/IV",
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  "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."
}