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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Regulation of immigration advisers - Complaints and disciplinary procedures

46: Registrar may refer complaint to Tribunal of own motion

You could also call this:

“Registrar can complain about immigration advisers and send it to Tribunal”

The Registrar can make a complaint about an immigration adviser on their own. They can do this for any of the reasons listed in section 44(2). The Registrar can then get this complaint ready to send to the Tribunal.

The Registrar can ask the Tribunal to look at the complaint. The Tribunal will decide if the immigration adviser’s licence should be suspended. They use section 53 to make this decision.

The Tribunal will handle this complaint in the same way as any other complaint they get under section 45(2).

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Part 1 Regulation of immigration advisers
Complaints and disciplinary procedures

46Registrar may refer complaint to Tribunal of own motion

  1. The Registrar may, of his or her own motion, make a complaint on one of the grounds set out in section 44(2) and prepare it for referral to the Tribunal.

  2. The Registrar may refer such a complaint to the Tribunal for a determination as to whether the licence of the immigration adviser concerned should be suspended under section 53.

  3. The complaint must be determined by the Tribunal in the same manner as any other complaint referred to it under section 45(2).