Commentary on Sections Part 4: Enforcement Section 30: Facilitation: territorial application
96.Section 30 amends section 25 of the Immigration Act 1971. Section 25 makes it an offence to assist unlawful immigration to a member State of the European Union. Presently, the section applies to anything done in the UK, anything done outside the UK by a British national and to anything done outside the UK by a body incorporated in the UK. Section 30 removes these existing limitations on the territorial application of the offence to cover acts of facilitation committed inside or outside the UK, irrespective of the nationality of the person carrying out the act (subsection (1)).
97.Subsection (2) amends sections 25A (helping an asylum seeker to enter the United Kingdom) and 25B (assisting entry to United Kingdom in breach of a deportation or exclusion order) of the Immigration Act 1971 to extend the territorial application of the offences under those sections in the same way as described above for section 25.