Part 6: Miscellaneous Section 74: Visa penalties under section 72: review and revocation
Overview: This section creates a duty to review visa penalty provisions made pursuant to section 72, and a duty to revoke visa penalty provisions if the relevant country is no longer considered uncooperative on the matter of returning its nationals who do not have a legal right to be in the UK.
	Background: For policy background, see explanatory notes for section 72.
	This section creates a new duty to review and, if necessary, revoke visa penalty provisions. This section does not amend or repeal existing legislation.
	Subsection 1 establishes that this provision applies where any visa penalty provision is in force in relation to a specified uncooperative country pursuant to section 72.
	Subsection 2 requires the Secretary of State to review whether the country in question should continue to be specified as uncooperative and, in light of that review, whether it is appropriate to amend the visa penalty provision, before the end of a set period.
	Subsection 3 requires that visa penalties must be revoked as soon as practicable if the Secretary of State is no longer of the opinion that the specified country is uncooperative .
	Subsection 4 sets the period relevant for this section at 2 months beginning with the date on which the visa penalty provision came into force and each subsequent period of 2 months.
	Subsection 5 cross-refers to the definition of "visa penalty provision" in section 70, and sets out the definition of the term "cooperation with returns" used in this section.