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Furthermore, it appears to me that the original scope of Section 31 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 was deliberately focused on and limited to offences such as illegal entry and document offences directly associated with refugees’ entry into the UK, but Amendment 203 expands it to cover third-party criminal conduct prior to entry. In our view, that goes beyond the original intention of that statute, which was primarily about prosecution for illegal entry and illegal presence. Offences of supplying articles for immigration crime are a very long way from that concept.