[25BB Facilitation offences: defences relating to stowaways]
Immigration Act 1971 (1971 c 77) | Legislation

[25BB  Facilitation offences: defences relating to stowaways]

[(1)     In proceedings for a facilitation offence brought against a master of a ship, it is a defence for the master to show—

(a)     that the assisted individual was a stowaway when the act of facilitation took place, and

(b)     that the master, or a person acting on the master's behalf, reported the presence of the assisted individual on the ship to the Secretary of State or an immigration officer—

(i)     in a case where the ship was scheduled to go to the United Kingdom, as soon as reasonably practicable after the time when the

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