Claimants and Applicants Section 45: Integration loans
123.Section 13 of the Asylum & Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 as originally enacted enabled the Secretary of State to make regulations enabling him to make loans to those recorded as refugees and given indefinite leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom. Section 45 amends that provision enabling loans to be made to refugees who have been given limited leave to enter or remain as well as such other classes of migrants as the Secretary of State prescribes in the regulations.
Section 46: Inspection of detention facilities
124.Section 46 amends section 5A(5A) of the Prison Act 1952 so as to regularise HM Chief Inspector of Prisons' (HMCIP) existing voluntary oversight of immigration short-term holding facilities (STHFs) and escort arrangements by placing it on a statutory footing. HMCIP's voluntary oversight of STHFs began in April 2004 and of escort arrangements in May 2005. The amendment brings the basis for the oversight of STHFs and escort arrangements in line with the position on immigration removal centres, which were made subject to statutory HMCIP oversight by section 152(5) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.