The amendment ensures that the transitional arrangements allowing certain persons to continue to be supported under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 also apply to their dependants.

Amendment 101, in schedule 6, page 100, line 38, at end insert—

‘( ) On and after the day on which paragraphs 1 and 2 come into force, section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 has effect in relation to persons within sub-paragraph (1) as if in subsection (11)(b) the word “not” were omitted.”