On 15 January 2018, the Immigration Act 2016 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 No. 1241, commenced Sections 61(1) and (2) and 66 of the 2016 Act and the majority of the immigration bail provisions set out in Schedule 10 to the 2016 Act.
Schedule 10 replaced the various pre-existing alternatives to detention (temporary admission, temporary release on bail and release on restrictions) by a single power to grant immigration bail.
Following commencement of the provisions in Schedule 10, any person at liberty in the community on the basis of one of the previous alternatives to detention provisions is now to be treated as having been granted immigration bail, subject to the same conditions, under the single bail power. Accompanying the new provisions is new Guidance, Immigration bail.