Commentary on Sections Part 3: Treatment of claimants Section 18: Support for asylum-seekers: enforcement
60.This section applies existing immigration officer powers of arrest, entry, search and seizure in the Immigration Act 1971 (the 1971 Act) to the offences of dishonestly obtaining asylum support.
61.New section 109A (arrest) gives an immigration officer the power to arrest a person, without warrant, where the officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that the person has committed an offence under section 105 or section 106 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (the 1999 Act) (false or dishonest representations in order to obtain support for asylum-seekers, respectively).
62.New section 109B (entry, search and seizure) extends the relevant powers of entry, search and seizure under sections 28B, 28D, 28E and 28G to 28L of the 1971 Act after a person has been arrested for an offence under section 105 or section 106 of the 1999 Act.