Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004

Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004^[1]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make provision about asylum and immigration.
Citation	2004 c. 19
Dates
Royal assent	22 July 2004
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 (c. 19) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It set various rules for immigrants to the United Kingdom. In 2006, section 19 of the Act was declared to be incompatible with the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms under section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Section 19 dealt the problem of so-called "sham marriages", where immigrants marry British citizens merely to gain leave to stay. In a case heard by the High Court of Justice in 2006, Mr Justice Stephen Silber ruled that as the section made an exemption for marriages held in the Anglican church, it discriminated against non-Anglicans.^[2]