Guidance

Level of penalty: code of practice

How Border Force decides the level of civil penalty for drivers found carrying people into the UK illegally.

• From: Border Force
• Published: 1 March 2004
• Last updated: 1 December 2023
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  1. 1 December 2023

     Added accessible versions of the Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Welsh translations.

  2. 14 November 2023

     Added accessible versions of the Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese and Romanian translations.

  3. 31 October 2023

     Added accessible versions in Dutch, Estonian, French, German and Hungarian.

  4. 8 June 2023

     Added translations.

  5. 9 May 2023

     Accessible version added.

  6. 13 February 2023

     Updated code of practice published.

  7. 22 December 2017

     Updated guidance.

  8. 1 March 2004

     First published.

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Details

This code of practice is used to determine the fines to be issued and factors that will be considered when making a decision under the Clandestine Entrant Civil Penalty Scheme.