{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-immigration-and-asylum-chamber-rules-2014/article-1", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-immigration-and-asylum-chamber-rules-2014/article-1.json", "legislation": "uksi/2014/2604", "legislation_title": "The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Rules 2014", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-immigration-and-asylum-chamber-rules-2014", "path": "article/1", "kind": "article", "number": "1", "heading": "Citation, commencement, application and interpretation", "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Rules 2014 and come into force on 20th October 2014.\n(2) They apply to proceedings before the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) In these Rules—\n“the 1999 Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 ;\n“the 2002 Act” means the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002;\n“the 2004 Act” means the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 ;\n...\n“the 2007 Act” means the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007;\n“the 2020 Regulations” means the Immigration (Citizens’ Rights Appeals) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020;\n“appealable decision” means a decision from which there is a right of appeal to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal;\n“appellant” means a person who has provided a notice of appeal to the Tribunal against an appealable decision in accordance with these Rules;\n“appointment” means (except in rule 10(5)), a case management meeting conducted by a member of the Tribunal’s staff authorised to carry out functions of a judicial nature pursuant to rule 3(2), held for the purpose of carrying out any of those functions;\n“asylum claim” has the meaning given in section 113(1) of the 2002 Act;\n“certificate of fee satisfaction” means a certificate of fee satisfaction issued by the Lord Chancellor under article 8 of the Fees Order;\n“decision maker” means the maker of a decision against which an appeal is brought;\n“dispose of proceedings” includes, unless indicated otherwise, disposing of a part of the proceedings;\n“document” means anything in which information is recorded in any form, and an obligation under these Rules to provide or allow access to a document or a copy of a document for any purpose means, unless the Tribunal directs otherwise, an obligation to provide or allow access to such document or copy in a legible form or in a form which can be readily made into a legible form;\n...\n“the Fees Order” means the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Fees Order 2011 ;\n“hearing” means an oral hearing and includes a hearing conducted in whole or in part by video link, telephone or other means of instantaneous two-way electronic communication;\n“the Immigration Acts” means the Acts referred to in section 61 of the UK Borders Act 2007 ;\n“party” means—\n(a)an appellant or respondent to proceedings;\n(b)a party to a bail application as provided for in rule 37(3) and 37(4); and\n(c)the UNHCR where notice has been given to the Tribunal in accordance with rule 8(3);\n“practice direction” means a direction given under section 23 of the 2007 Act;\n“qualified representative” means a person who is a qualified person in accordance with section 84(2) of the 1999 Act;\n“respondent” means—\n(a)the decision maker specified in the notice of decision against which a notice of appeal has been provided; and\n(b)a person substituted or added as a respondent in accordance with rule 8.\n“Tribunal” means the First-tier Tribunal;\n“the UNHCR” means the United Kingdom Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; and\n“working day” means any day except—\n(a)a Saturday or Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 ; and\n(b)27th to 31st December inclusive.\n(5) A rule or Part referred to by number alone, means a rule in, or Part of, these Rules.", "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.", "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "F", "label": "F1", "text": "Rule 1(3) omitted (21.7.2020) by virtue of The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/651), rules 1(1), 10(2)(a)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F2", "text": "Words in rule 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1309), regs. 1(2), 39(2) (with reg. 39(5)(6))" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F3", "text": "Words in rule 1 inserted (31.1.2020) by The Immigration (Citizens Rights Appeals) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/61), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 6(2)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F4", "text": "Words in rule 1(4) inserted (6.4.2022) by The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/312), rules 1, 2(2)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F5", "text": "Words in rule 1(4) omitted (21.7.2020) by virtue of The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/651), rules 1(1), 10(2)(b)" }, { "type": "M", "label": "M1", "text": "1999 c.33" }, { "type": "M", "label": "M2", "text": "2004 c. 19." }, { "type": "M", "label": "M3", "text": "S.I. 2011/2841" }, { "type": "M", "label": "M4", "text": "2007 c.30." }, { "type": "M", "label": "M5", "text": "1971 c.80" } ], "outstanding_effects": [], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2604/article/1", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:01:12.022384+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." }