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What does Temporary admission mean?
In immigration practice, temporary admission described the administrative release of a person subject to UK immigration control who would otherwise be detained, allowing them to remain in the UK without leave to enter or leave to remain, usually under conditions such as reporting, residence and work restrictions. It did not confer leave, regularise status, or remove liability to detention or removal. It was commonly used for arriving passengers pending examination and for asylum seekers awaiting decisions. The term had a statutory footing under the Immigration Act 1971, Schedule 2 (notably paragraph 21), but has been replaced across England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by the single power of immigration bail under the Immigration Act 2016, Schedule 10 (in force from January 2018). References to temporary admission now arise primarily in legacy cases, historical records and older case law; in current UK practice, immigration bail is the correct concept. In Ireland, “temporary admission” is not a defined immigration status. Irish law uses permission to land or be in the State (Immigration Act 2004) and temporary release from immigration detention (Immigration Act 1999). Practitioners should avoid equating UK temporary admission with Irish permissions.
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PRACTICE NOTES
Ordinary Residence under the Care Act 2014 and s117 MHA 1983: Principles, Capacity and Deeming Rules, Transitional Cases, and Inter-Authority Dispute Resolution (England and Wales)

STOP PRESS: The Supreme Court decided in R (on the application of Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2023] UKSC 31 that responsibility for section 117 Mental Health Act 1983 aftercare rests with the authority for the area in which the individual was ordinarily resident prior to the admission. This still holds even where accommodation had been arranged by another local authority under an earlier section 117 obligation. For commentary, see News Analysis: Ordinary Residence and Mental Health Aftercare Services (R (Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care) and Supreme Court confirms duty to provide after-care services ends when a person is re-detained for treatment (R (on the application of Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care), LNB News 10/08/2023 41. A local authority is also under a duty to assess whether an adult has needs for care and support where it appears to the authority that they may have such needs...

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Intra‑EU posting of third‑country nationals: EU law, Vander Elst, hiring‑out of labour, residence permits beyond 90 days, and the ‘normally works’ test—case law and enforcement

Introduction The intra-EU posting of third-country nationals (TCNs) has become an increasingly prevalent and widely used form of labour mobility, whereby undertakings based in one Member State send staff to deliver services on a temporary basis in another across the Union. Anchored in Article 56 TFEU on the freedom to provide services, this practice draws on the seminal Vander Elst judgment, Case C‑43/93, which clearly confirmed that Member States may not demand additional work permits from lawfully employed TCNs seconded from a different Member State. Although Directive 96/71/EC, the Posting of Workers Directive (PWD), as revised by Directive 2018/957/EU and supplemented by Directive 2014/67/EU on its enforcement, sets out the overarching legal regime for posting, these measures do not spell out the particular arrangements applicable to TCNs (for more on the PWD, see Practice Note: Posting of workers in the EU). Furthermore, the Directive does not prejudice agreements concluded by the Community with third countries, nor the domestic rules of Member States governing the admission to their territory of...

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Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation under the Australia–UK FTA: Practical Guide to Chapter 5 Obligations for UK Practitioners

This Practice Note offers practical direction on customs procedures and trade facilitation commitments applied by Australia and the United Kingdom under the Australia and the United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (Aus-UK FTA). Introduction As a free trade agreement, the Aus-UK FTA does more than govern tariffs on goods traded between the two parties; it also deals with other matters required for trading in goods or considered non-tariff barriers to trade. This includes: rules of origin. For detail on rules of origin under the Aus-UK FTA, see Practice Note: Rules of origin of the Aus-UK FTA. For guidance on making an origin claim under the Aus-UK FTA, see Practice Note: How to claim preference under the Aus-UK FTA technical barriers to trade. For commentary on technical barriers to trade under the Aus-UK FTA, see Practice Note: Technical barriers to trade under the Aus-UK FTA sanitary and phytosanitary measure. For information on sanitary and phytosanitary measures under the Aus-UK FTA, see Practice Note: Sanitary and...

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ET3 grounds of resistance precedent (hirer): Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (Great Britain)

[ Insert in para 6.1 of claim form ET3: ] It is accepted that the Claimant works as a [ legal secretary ], and it is further accepted that the First Respondent is a temporary employment agency. The Second Respondent has no knowledge of the nature or terms of any contract between the Claimant and the First Respondent and therefore makes no admission on that matter. It is also accepted that an arrangement existed between the First and Second Respondents for the Claimant to deliver legal secretarial services to the Second Respondent. It is accepted that the Claimant began working on [ insert date ]. She attended an induction on [ insert date ], during which she was informed that she would require a staff card to access certain of the Second Respondent's facilities, including the staff canteen. She was also informed that, to obtain a staff card, she must provide the HR department with a passport-sized photograph of herself...

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s.3C Leave: Withdrawing Application—UK Stay Before Re‑entry Ban

Practice Note: Suitability grounds for refusal and cancellation of permission notes that, under the Immigration Rules, Part 9, para 320(7B): Unless an exemption applies, or the relevant re-entry ban has expired, any application made under a route within Parts 2–8, or under Appendix Armed Forces, must be refused where the person has previously breached UK immigration law by: overstaying, unless the overstay was 90 days or less (where it began before 6 April 2017) or 30 days or less (where it began on or after 6 April 2017) and, in either scenario, they left the UK of their own accord and not at public expense Where any of the above circumstances apply, any further application to re-enter the UK will be refused until the following re-entry ban has run: one year, if the individual departed the UK voluntarily and not at public expense—note that those refused entry at port fall within this category, provided they complied with the conditions set...

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