Part 2: Asylum Chapter 5: Priority removal notices Section 23: Priority removal notices: expedited appeals
Overview: This section creates an expedited appeal route for appellants where they have been served with a priority removal notice (PRN) and made a protection or human rights claim or provided reasons or evidence as to why they should be allowed to remain in the UK after the PRN cut-off date but while the PRN is still in force. Their right of appeal will be to the Upper Tribunal instead of the First-tier Tribunal where certified by the Secretary of State.
	Background: This is a new provision for a separate appeals process connected to the "priority removal notice" introduced in section 20.
	Subsection 1 amends the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 ("the 2002 Act") to insert new section 82A providing for an expedited appeal process to the Upper Tribunal where certain conditions are met and the Secretary of State has certified that the appeal is an expedited appeal.
	82A(1) sets out the expedited appeal conditions. These are that a person has been served with a PRN, has made a protection or human rights claim on or after the PRN cut-off date (but while the PRN is still in force), which has been refused with a right of appeal.
	82A(2) stipulates that where the conditions in 82A(1) are met the Secretary of State must certify an appeal right as an expedited appeal unless satisfied that there were good reasons for the claimant raising their claim on or after the PRN cut-off date.
	82A(3) confirms that a right of appeal under this section is to the Upper Tribunal instead of the First-tier Tribunal.
	82A(4) provides that Tribunal Procedure Rules must make provision to try and ensure that expedited appeals are brought and determined more quickly than an appeal under section 82(1) in the First-tier Tribunal.
	82A(5) states that Tribunal Procedure Rules must allow for the Upper Tribunal to make an order to remove a case from the expedited process when it is the only way to secure that justice is done. Accordingly, the expedited appeal will continue as an appeal in the First-tier Tribunal and be transferred there.
	82A(6) confirms that "priority removal notice" and "PRN cut-off date" have the same meaning as in Section 20.
	Subsection 2 amends section 13(8) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 to provide that any decision of the Upper Tribunal on an expedited appeal is an "excluded decision" for the purposes of that Act so that there is no right of appeal to the Court of Appeal.
	Subsection 3 introduces Schedule 3 which provides consequential amendments to the 2002 Act necessary by reason of this provision.