The "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008" received Royal Assent on 8th May 2008. It is an Act to make further provision about criminal justice (including provision about the police) and dealing with offenders and defaulters; to make further provision about the management of offenders; to amend the criminal law; to make further provision for combating crime and disorder; to make provision about the mutual recognition of financial penalties; to amend the Repatriation of Offenders Act 1984; to make provision for a new immigration status in certain cases involving criminality; to make provision about the automatic deportation of prisoners under the UK Borders Act 2007; to amend section 127 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and to confer power to suspend the operation of that section.Explanatory notes to assist in the understanding of the Act will be available separately.