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Immigration Act 2009

Compliance and information - Powers relating to deportation and turnaround

291: Further applications for compulsion order

You could also call this:

“Repeated requests for court orders to make someone comply with immigration rules”

You can ask for a compulsion order more than once, even if someone has asked for one before or if an order has been made before. This applies even if the previous request or order was about a different person.

You can ask for a compulsion order under section 289, and a judge can make the order, regardless of any previous requests or orders.

However, if you keep asking for compulsion orders about the same thing, the judge might say no. The judge can refuse if they think you’re just trying to be annoying or misusing the court system.

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Part 8 Compliance and information
Powers relating to deportation and turnaround

291Further applications for compulsion order

  1. The fact that a compulsion order has previously been sought or made in respect of a matter, whether or not the previous application or order related to the same person, does not prohibit—

  2. the making of an application under section 289 for a compulsion order in respect of a matter; or
    1. a Judge from making a compulsion order in respect of a matter.

      1. Notwithstanding anything in this section, where a further application for a compulsion order is made in respect of a matter in relation to which a previous compulsion order application has been made, the Judge may refuse to make the order sought if he or she is satisfied that the further application is vexatious or an abuse of the process of the court.