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Lord Dubs' amendment, Clause 4

Illegal Migration Act 2023

Report stage

Amendment number: 14

Lead member

Lord Dubs
Labour, Life peer
Lords

Decision

Agreed
This amendment was agreed to. Where a member has given notice of their intention to oppose a Clause/Schedule standing part of a Bill, 'agreed' indicates that the Clause/Schedule was removed from the Bill.

Amendment text

Clause 4, page 6, line 11

after “2” insert “and does not fall within the exceptions in section 3”

Member's explanatory statement

This amendment would make asylum and human rights claims admissible from unaccompanied children, who are exempted from the duty to remove by Clause 3. This would continue current policy under which unaccompanied children’s asylum claims are not subject to the inadmissibility regime.

Sponsors

Lord Scriven
Liberal Democrat
Life peer
Baroness Butler-Sloss
Crossbench
Life peer
The Lord Bishop of Durham
Bishops
Bishops