Commentary on provisions of the Act Section 61: Report on safe and legal routes
This section places a duty on the Secretary of State to lay a report before Parliament within six months of Royal Assent (that is by 20 January 2024), on safe and legal routes to enter the UK. While ‘safe and legal routes’ has not been defined in this section, this section operates on the term taking its accepted meaning; inclusion in the report does not indicate that a route will be included in the definition of safe and legal routes for the purposes of the cap, provided for in section 60.
	Subsection (1) requires the report to contain details (subsection (2)) of current safe and legal routes, and any proposed additional safe and legal routes which may not yet be in operation. This report must also set out the routes which are available to adults and children and how the routes, either existing or proposed, can be accessed by those who are eligible to use them.