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Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Addi­tional Authorities) Order 2008 (SI 2008/78) Commences 15 February 2008 Extends the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, s 17, which puts a duty on named agencies to consider the implications for crime, disorder and substance misuse as they carry out their business, to cover in addition the Greater London Authority, Transport for London and the London Development Agency. This is to ensure they take account of crime, disorder, substance misuse, anti-social behaviour, and behaviour adversely affecting the envi­ronment, in all their business.

School Admission Appeals Code (Appointed Day) (England) Order 2008 (SI 2008/53) Commenced 17 January 2008 Appointed 17 January 2008 as the day on which the School Admission Appeals Code, issued under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, ss 84, 85, by the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Fami­lies, came into force. The new code applies only in relation to and imposes requirements and includes guidelines setting out aims, objec­tives and other matters in relation to the arrangements for appeals against decisions about admission of children to schools.

UK Borders Act 2007 (Commence­ment No 1 and Transitional Provi­sions) Order 2008 (SI 2008/99) Commenced 31 January 2008 Provisions including those relating to immigration officers’ powers of arrest and detention, and biometric registra­tion for those subject to immigration control, commenced on 31 January 2008. Also confers a power to make regulations to require those subject to immigration control to apply for a docu­ment recording external physical char­acteristics and to require a “biometric immigration document” to be used for specified immigration purposes, in connection with specified immigration procedures, and in specified circum­stances where a question arises about a person’s status in relation to national­ity or immigration.