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href="/wiki/Short_and_long_titles" title="Short and long titles">Long title</a></th><td class="infobox-data description">An Act to amend and replace the present immigration laws, to make certain related changes in the citizenship law and enable help to be given to those wishing to return abroad, and for purposes connected therewith.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Citation_of_United_Kingdom_legislation" title="Citation of United Kingdom legislation">Citation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_acts_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom_from_1971" title="List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1971">1971</a> c. 77</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Dates</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">Royal assent</a></th><td class="infobox-data">28 October 1971</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Coming_into_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Coming into force">Commencement</a></th><td class="infobox-data dtstart">1 January 1973</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Other legislation</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Repeals/revokes</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul style="margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Aliens_Restriction_Act_1914" title="Aliens Restriction Act 1914">Aliens Restriction Act 1914</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Immigrants_Act_1968" title="Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968">Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968</a></li><li><a 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statute as amended</a></th></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Immigration Act 1971</b><sup id="cite_ref-st_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-st-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (c. 77) is an <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Parliament_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Act of Parliament (UK)">act</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a> concerning <a href="/wiki/Immigration" title="Immigration">immigration</a> and nearly entirely remaking the field of <a href="/wiki/British_immigration_law" class="mw-redirect" title="British immigration law">British immigration law</a>. 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It was also partly passed to legally clarify the rights of <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth citizens</a> within the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> in preparation for membership of the <a href="/wiki/European_Communities" title="European Communities">European Communities (EC)</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/Accession_of_the_United_Kingdom_to_the_European_Communities" title="Accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities">United Kingdom would become a member state from 1 January 1973</a>. It was coincidentally the same day which the Act came into full legal force which gave not only new automatic rights to EC member state citizens but would also give them priority over non-EC citizens (including overseas Commonwealth citizens) under the obligations of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Rome" title="Treaty of Rome">Treaty of Rome</a>, of which the UK become a signatory though the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Accession_1972" title="Treaty of Accession 1972">Treaty of Accession</a>, signed on 22 January 1972. In relation to deportation notices, the Act is referenced at sections 11 and 23 of the <a href="/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2000" title="Terrorism Act 2000">Terrorism Act 2000</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_Act_1971&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson's</a> Labour government proposed the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Immigrants_Act_1968" title="Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968">Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968</a> in response to the possibility of 200,000 Asian immigrants leaving Kenya in 1967 due to its attempts at '<a href="/wiki/Africanization" title="Africanization">Africanisation</a>'.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The act was passed in just three days, partly due to the support and fierce drive of then-<a href="/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Callaghan" title="James Callaghan">James Callaghan</a>. This broke away from the non-discriminatory immigration policy that had preceded it. The UK Government saw a need to appease <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> over the future negative impact on them when Britain would join the <a href="/wiki/European_Communities" title="European Communities">European Communities</a>, a matter which would be hardest on people who had emigrated from Britain in the expectation of continued close ties.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Summary">Summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_Act_1971&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One result of the Act was to stop the permanent migration of workers from the overseas members of the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth of Nations</a>, unless they met certain tests. It elaborated the definition of "patrial" migrants, first introduced in the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Immigrants_Act_1968" title="Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968">Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968</a>, as persons born in the United Kingdom and persons who had resided there for the previous five years or longer.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Right_of_abode">Right of abode</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_Act_1971&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Right of abode"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Act limited the right to enter and live in the United Kingdom to certain subsets of <a href="/wiki/Citizens_of_the_United_Kingdom_and_Colonies" class="mw-redirect" title="Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies">Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies</a> with ties to the UK itself. </p><p>That wording of the measure introduced minor confusion into the concept of the right of abode, when it limited right of abode through descent to a CUKC who had a parent who had CUKC status by "birth, adoption, naturalisation or .... registration in the United Kingdom or in any of the islands" or a grandparent CUKC who "at the time of that birth or adoption so had it".<sup id="cite_ref-JZ_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JZ-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ize-laymu_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ize-laymu-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whether "so had it" referred to a grandparent who had CUKC status generally or CUKC status from the UK and islands specifically was decided by the courts to refer to the latter.<sup id="cite_ref-JZ_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JZ-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ize-laymu_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ize-laymu-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The right of abode on 31 December 1982 was necessary to become a British citizen on 1 January 1983 under the automatic transition at commencement of CUKC provisions of the <a href="/wiki/British_Nationality_Act_1981" title="British Nationality Act 1981">British Nationality Act 1981</a>, so failing to meet the interpretation of the right of abode test above resulted in no British citizenship through that route.<sup id="cite_ref-JZ_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JZ-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ize-laymu_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ize-laymu-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The British Nationality Act 1981 modified the right of abode section of the Immigration Act 1971 to remove the wording at issue, although the former version still had effect for determinations of British citizenship through right of abode for persons born before 1983, and potentially for their descendants.<sup id="cite_ref-JZ_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JZ-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ize-laymu_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ize-laymu-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Immigration_Rules">Immigration Rules</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_Act_1971&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Immigration Rules"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Section 1 of the act provides for "rules laid down by the Secretary of State as to the practice to be followed in the administration of this Act".<sup id="cite_ref-1971act_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1971act-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1972, the <a href="/wiki/Heath_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Heath administration">Heath administration</a> introduced the first proposed Immigration Rules under the 1971 act.<sup id="cite_ref-Partos_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Partos-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rules proposal drew criticism from Conservative Party <a href="/wiki/Backbenchers" class="mw-redirect" title="Backbenchers">backbenchers</a>, because it formally implemented a limit of six months of leave to enter as a visitor for white "<a href="/wiki/Old_Commonwealth" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Commonwealth">Old Commonwealth</a>" citizens who were "non-patrial" (did not have <a href="/wiki/Right_of_abode_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Right of abode in the United Kingdom">Right of Abode</a> under the 1971 act, generally because they did not have a parent or grandparent from the UK).<sup id="cite_ref-Partos_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Partos-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time the proposal opened the door to free movement of certain European workers from European Economic Community member states.<sup id="cite_ref-Partos_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Partos-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seven backbenchers voted against the proposed Rules and 53 abstained, leading to defeat.<sup id="cite_ref-Partos_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Partos-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Minutes from a Cabinet meeting the next day conclude that "anti-European sentiment" among backbenchers, who instead preferred "Old Commonwealth" migration to the UK, was at the core of the result.<sup id="cite_ref-Partos_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Partos-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The proposal was revised, and the first Rules were passed in January 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-Partos_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Partos-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By August 2018, the Immigration Rules stood at almost 375,000 words, often so precise and detailed that the service of a lawyer are typically required to navigate them.<sup id="cite_ref-Bozic_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bozic-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That length represented nearly a doubling in just a decade.<sup id="cite_ref-Bozic_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bozic-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the period of the introduction of the "<a href="/wiki/Home_Office_hostile_environment_policy" title="Home Office hostile environment policy">hostile environment</a>" policy under Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a>, more than 1,300 changes were made to the Rules in 2012 alone.<sup id="cite_ref-Bozic_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bozic-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Former <a href="/wiki/Lord_Justice_of_Appeal" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Justice of Appeal">Lord Justice of Appeal</a> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Irwin_(judge)" title="Stephen Irwin (judge)">Stephen Irwin</a> referred to the complexity of the system as "something of a disgrace", and an effort to gradually overhaul the Rules into a more understandable system began to take place.<sup id="cite_ref-Bozic_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bozic-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Law_Commission_(England_and_Wales)" title="Law Commission (England and Wales)">England and Wales Law Commission</a> began to make recommendations for clearer rules to be adopted.<sup id="cite_ref-Bozic_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bozic-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contents">Contents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immigration_Act_1971&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Contents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Part I Regulation of Entry into and Stay in United Kingdom</li> 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M. Evans (1972). "Immigration Act 1971". <i>The Modern Law Review</i>. <b>35</b> (5): 508–524. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1468-2230.1972.tb02363.x">10.1111/j.1468-2230.1972.tb02363.x</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1094478">1094478</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Modern+Law+Review&rft.atitle=Immigration+Act+1971&rft.volume=35&rft.issue=5&rft.pages=508-524&rft.date=1972&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.1468-2230.1972.tb02363.x&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F1094478%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.au=J.+M.+Evans&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AImmigration+Act+1971" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Smith, Evan, Marmo, Marinella. “The myth of sovereignty: British immigration control in policy and practice in the nineteen-seventies”, Historical Research, 87:236 (2014), 344-369.</li> <li>Spencer, Ian. British Immigration Policy Since 1939: The Making of Multi Racial Britain (London, 1997).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliams2015" class="citation journal cs1">Williams, Callum (2015). "Patriality, Work Permits and the European Economic Community: The Introduction of the 1971 Immigration Act". <i>Contemporary British History</i>. <b>29</b> (4): 508–538. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F13619462.2014.1002775">10.1080/13619462.2014.1002775</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154673380">154673380</a>.</cite><span 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Overseas Territories Act 2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration,_Asylum_and_Nationality_Act_2006" title="Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006">Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.25em;font-weight:normal;">Previous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sophia_Naturalization_Act_1705" title="Sophia Naturalization Act 1705">Sophia Naturalization Act 1705</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Nationality_Act_1948" title="British Nationality Act 1948">British Nationality Act 1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ireland_Act_1949" title="Ireland Act 1949">Ireland Act 1949</a></li> <li>Commonwealth Immigrants Act of <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Immigrants_Act_1962" title="Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962">1962</a> and <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Immigrants_Act_1968" title="Commonwealth Immigrants 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