Immigration Services Tribunal
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The Immigration Services Tribunal was a tribunal
in the United Kingdom
created by the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to hear:
The Tribunal was abolished in January 2010 and its functions transferred to the First-tier Tribunal
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Tribunal
A tribunal in the general sense is any person or institution with the authority to judge, adjudicate on, or determine claims or disputes—whether or not it is called a tribunal in its title....
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
created by the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to hear:
- appeals from decisions of the Immigration Services CommissionerOffice of the Immigration Services CommissionerThe Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner is the United Kingdom regulator of the immigration advice industry whose powers stem from the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.-OISC immigration advisers:...
- disciplinary charges laid by the Immigration Services Commissioner under paragraph 9(1)(e) of Schedule 5 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
The Tribunal was abolished in January 2010 and its functions transferred to the First-tier Tribunal
First-tier Tribunal
The First-tier Tribunal is part of the administrative justice system of the United Kingdom. It was created in 2008 as part of a programme, set out in the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, to rationalise the tribunal system, and has since taken on the functions of twenty previously...
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