Clause 2 - Entering United Kingdom without passport
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill
3:15 pm
Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking, Conservative)
The point was made earlier by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Harborough that the issue of a reasonable excuse, which is a defence to a charge, is something that that Zimbabwean might well, should well and would well raise in court, where it would have to be decided by the judicial authorities. However, reasonable excuse does not come within the purview of the decision making of the immigration officer. That is a matter for the court to decide further down the line.