The Commissioner's Rules (Second edition)

Contents

• Introduction to the Commissioner's Rules
• The Commissioner's Rules
  • Registration
  • Fees
  • Accounts and records
  • Management and professionalism

Foreword

The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (the Act) made it unlawful for anyone to provide unregulated immigration advice or immigration services.

Immigration advisers must be fit and competent. The Act gives me the power to make rules concerning the professional practice, conduct and discipline of 'registered persons'. Registered advisers must comply with both the Code of Standards and the Commissioner's Rules. All advisers must comply with the Code. The Rules and the Code together form the basis of the OISC's (Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner's) scheme of regulation, which sets the standards and principles to which immigration advisers are expected to comply.

This second edition of the Rules places increased emphasis on financial accountability, management and professionalism. The other aspects of providing immigration advice and immigration services are contained in the Code.

This edition of the Rules will take effect from 2 July 2007.

Suzanne McCarthy
Immigration Services Commissioner
November 2006