{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-immigration-appeals-commission-procedure-rules-2003/article-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-immigration-appeals-commission-procedure-rules-2003/article-33.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1034",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-immigration-appeals-commission-procedure-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/33",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Representation of parties",
  "text": "(1) The appellant may act in person or be represented by—\n(a) a person having a qualification referred to in section 6(3) of the 1997 Act;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) with the leave of the Commission, any other person,\nprovided that the person referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (c) is not prohibited from providing immigration services by section 84 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.\n(2) The Secretary of State and the United Kingdom Representative may be represented by any person authorised by them to act on their behalf.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 33(1)(b) omitted (7.5.2007) by virtue of The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2007 (S.I. 2007/1285), rules 1(1), 19(a) (with rule 35)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 33(1) substituted (7.5.2007) by The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2007 (S.I. 2007/1285), rules 1(1), 19(b) (with rule 35)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 33 in force at 1.4.2003, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 33."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1034/article/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:26:18.096850+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."
}