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Immigration Act 2009

Repeals, transitional provisions, saving provisions, and related matters - Transitional and savings provisions - Miscellaneous provisions

471: Files of appeals bodies

You could also call this:

“Government department takes over and manages immigration appeal files”

From the day this law starts, the government department mentioned in clause 5 of Schedule 2 owns and takes care of all the files that belong to the appeals bodies. These files contain important information about immigration appeals. The government department is in charge of keeping these files safe and organised.

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Part 12 Repeals, transitional provisions, saving provisions, and related matters
Transitional and savings provisions: Miscellaneous provisions

471Files of appeals bodies

  1. As from the commencement of this section, the department of State referred to in clause 5 of Schedule 2 is the owner of, and responsible for, all the files of the appeals bodies.