Commentary on Sections Schedule 27 - Minor and consequential amendments Paragraph 37 - Immigration Act 1971 (c. 77)
949.Paragraph 37 amends the Immigration Act 1971. Section 3 of the 1971 Act provides that a person is liable to deportation if another person to whose family he or she belongs is or has been ordered to be deported. Section 5 of the 1971 Act states that, for the purposes of deportation, a person (A) is to be regarded as belonging to the family of another person (B) if A is B’s spouse or child under the age of eighteen. Paragraph 37 amends section 5 of the 1971 Act to add that A is to be regarded as belonging to the family of B if A is B’s civil partner.