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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Regulation of immigration advisers - Immigration Advisers Authority and Registrar of Immigration Advisers

35: Functions of Authority

You could also call this:

“What the Immigration Advisers Authority does”

The Immigration Advisers Authority has several important jobs to do. You should know that the Authority:

Keeps a list of licensed immigration advisers.

Looks after the system for giving licences to immigration advisers.

Creates and updates rules about what immigration advisers need to know and how they should behave.

Helps immigration advisers learn and get better at their job.

Tells the public about things related to immigration advice.

Looks into and takes action if someone breaks the rules in this law.

Sets up ways for people to make complaints, including making sure immigration advisers have their own complaint systems.

Sends complaints to a special group called the Tribunal.

Does other jobs that this law or other laws say it should do.

Does any extra tasks that are needed to complete all these jobs.

The person in charge of the Authority, called the Registrar, has to answer to the chief executive for doing all these jobs.

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Immigration Advisers Authority and Registrar of Immigration Advisers

35Functions of Authority

  1. The functions of the Authority are—

  2. to establish and maintain a register of licensed immigration advisers:
    1. to administer the licensing regime for immigration advisers:
      1. to develop, make, and maintain competency standards and a code of conduct for immigration advisers:
        1. to facilitate the education and professional development of immigration advisers:
          1. to facilitate public awareness of matters relating to the provision of immigration advice:
            1. to investigate and take enforcement action in relation to offences under this Act:
              1. to provide procedures for the lodging of complaints, including requiring immigration advisers to set up their own complaints processes:
                1. to refer complaints to the Tribunal:
                  1. to carry out such other functions as may be conferred on the Authority by this Act or any other enactment:
                    1. to carry out any functions that are incidental and related to, or consequential on, the functions referred to in paragraphs (a) to (h).

                      1. The Registrar is responsible to the chief executive for carrying out the functions of the Authority.

                      Notes
                      • Section 35(1)(c): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                      • Section 35(1)(ga): inserted, on , by section 33 of the Regulatory Systems (Immigration and Workforce) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 10).