{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-immigration-appeals-commission-act-1997/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-immigration-appeals-commission-act-1997/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/68",
  "legislation_title": "Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-immigration-appeals-commission-act-1997",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Procedure on applications to the Commission for leave to appeal etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Lord Chancellor may make rules regulating, and prescribing the procedure to be followed on, applications to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission for leave to appeal under section 7 above or for the grant of a certificate under section 7B.\n(2) Rules under this section may include provision enabling an application ... to be heard by a single member of the Commission.\n(3) The power to make rules under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(4) No rules shall be made under this section unless a draft of them has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(1) inserted (28.6.2018) by Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2), ss. 66(5)(a), 95(1); S.I. 2018/732, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(2) omitted (28.6.2018) by virtue of Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2), ss. 66(5)(b), 95(1); S.I. 2018/732, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 8 heading inserted (28.6.2018) by Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2), ss. 66(6), 95(1); S.I. 2018/732, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 8 modified (14.12.2001) by 2001 c. 24, s. 27(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/68/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:23:32.797614+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."
}