New Clause 8 - Detention by Secretary of State
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill
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'(1) Section 62 of the Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Act 2002 (c.41) (detention by the Secretary of State) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1) insert the words ''over the age of eighteen'' after the word ''person'' in the first line.
(3) After subsection (3) insert—
''(3A) A provision of Schedule 2 to that Act about a person who is detained or liable to detention under that Schedule shall only apply to a person over the age of eighteen.
(3B) Nothing in Schedule 2 to that Act or in this section shall permit the detention of a person if the result of that detention would be the detention of a person under the age of eighteen.''.'.—[Mr. Gerrard.]
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