E/CN.4/1999/63/Add.3 page 4 of receipt, and that most appeals to adjudicators would be heard within a further four months. Both these targets reflect average process times and the Government expects that many cases would be dealt with more quickly. To achieve such targets, the Government will need to successfully implement the Casework Programme. The Government considers that economic migrants abuse the refugee claims system because its inefficiency allows them to remain in the United Kingdom for years. A faster system with more certain removal at the end of the process would deter abuse significantly; (b) Legal representation at asylum interviews. The Government considers that for swift and fair decision-making there is no need to make provision in all cases for legal representatives to be present at asylum interviews. The Government considers the asylum interviews to be essentially a fact-finding exercise, designed to enable the asylum claimants to state, in their own words, why they fear persecution in their own country; (c) Post-interview representations. The Government indicates in the White Paper that it wishes to standardize the time period within which an asylum seeker would be required to make a post-interview representation. The period of five days has been proposed. In exceptional cases, however, this period may be extended; (d) Support arrangements for asylum seekers. The support system, according to the Government, must serve the following objectives: (i) (ii) (iii) To ensure that genuine asylum seekers are not left destitute, while containing costs through incentives for asylum seekers to rely first on their own means, or on those of their communities, for support; To provide for asylum seekers separately from the main benefits system; and To minimize the incentive to economic migration, particularly by minimizing cash payments to asylum seekers. II. THE LEGAL REGIME: A. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS The Immigration Act 9. Paragraphs 16 to 18 of Schedule 2 of the Immigration Act, 1971 lay down the conditions and circumstances in which a person may be detained by an immigration officer and matters relating thereto. These paragraphs are set out hereunder: “Detention of persons liable to examination or removal “16.(1) A person who may be required to submit to examination under paragraph 2 above may be detained under the authority of an immigration officer pending his examination and pending a decision to give or refuse him leave to enter.