Part 2: Asylum Chapter 2: Place of Claim Section 14: Requirement to make asylum claim at "designated place"
Overview: This section stipulates the places where asylum claims made in accordance with the Immigration Rules, must be made. These places (all in the UK) are an asylum intake unit, an immigration removal centre, a port or airport, a place where an officer authorised to accept an asylum application is present (except anywhere in the territorial seas of the United Kingdom), a place to which the person has been directed by the Secretary of State to make an asylum claim; and such other place as the Secretary of State may designate by regulations.
	Background: Since the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, the 2005 Procedures Directive, which allows Member States to require that applications for asylum be made at a designated place, ceased to be applicable to the UK. Consequently, Immigration Rules changes came into effect on 31 December 2020, specifying where asylum claims can be made.
	This section transfers these changes into primary legislation and provides greater clarification.
	Subsection 1 provides that a claim for asylum be made in person and at a designated place.
	Subsection 2 provides the definition of a "designated place" in the UK as being an asylum intake unit, an immigration removal centre, a port or airport, a location where an officer authorised to accept an asylum application is present and a location to which the person has been directed by the Secretary of State or an immigration officer to make an asylum claim.
	Subsections 2(f) and 8 confer a power on the Secretary of State to add a designated place by regulations subject to the negative resolution procedure.
	Subsections 3 to 5 implement uncommenced amendments that remove references to "at a place designated by the Secretary of State" in the relevant sections.
	Subsection 6 provides a definition of "asylum claim" for the purposes of this section.
	Subsection 7 stipulates that UK territorial seas are excluded from being considered a place of claim, despite their otherwise being a person present who is authorised to accept an asylum claim on behalf of the Secretary of State.