# The Accession (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) Regulations 2006, Schedule 1: Authorised categories of employment and relevant requirements


Authorised category of employment
Relevant requirements in relation to authorised category of employment
Authorised categories of employment requiring a letter of approval under the work permit arrangements
Employment under the Sectors Based Scheme
The applicant—
(1) holds a letter of approval under the work permit arrangements issued under the Sectors-Based Scheme; and
(2) is capable of undertaking the employment specified in that letter.
Training or work experience
The applicant—
(1) holds a letter of approval under the work permit arrangements issued under the Training and Work Experience Scheme; and
(2) is capable of undertaking the training or work experience as specified in that letter.
Work permit employment
The applicant—
(1) holds a letter of approval under the work permit arrangements issued in relation to work permit employment; and
(2) is capable of undertaking the employment specified in that letter.
Other authorised categories of employment
Airport based operational ground staff of an overseas air line
The applicant has been transferred to the United Kingdom by an overseas-owned airline operating services to and from the United Kingdom to take up duty at an international airport as station manager, security manager or technical manager.
Au pair placement
The applicant—
(1) has and intends to take up an offer of an au pair placement;
(2) is aged between 17 to 27 inclusive;
(3) is unmarried and is not in a civil partnership; and
(4) is without dependants.
Domestic worker in a private household
The applicant—
(1) is over 18;
(2) has been employed for at least a year outside the United Kingdom as a domestic worker under the same roof as his employer or in a household that the employer uses for himself on a regular basis; and
(3) intends to be so employed by that employer in the United Kingdom.
Minister of religion, missionary or member of a religious order
The applicant—
(1) if a minister of religion—
(a) has either been working for at least one year as a minister of religion in any of the five years immediately prior to the date on which the application for the worker accession card is made or, where ordination is prescribed by a religious faith as the sole means of entering the ministry, has been ordained as a minister of religion following at least one year’s full time or two years’ part time training for the ministry; and
(b) holds an International English Language Testing System Certificate issued to him to certify that he has achieved level 4 competence in spoken English, and the Certificate is dated not more than two years prior to the date on which the application for an accession worker card is made;
(2) if a missionary, has been trained as a missionary or has worked as a missionary and is being sent or has been sent to the United Kingdom by an overseas organisation;
(3) if a member of a religious order, is living or coming to live in a community maintained by the religious order of which he is a member and, if intending to teach, does not intend to do so save at an establishment maintained by his order; and
(4) intends to work in the United Kingdom as a minister of religion, missionary or for the religious order of which he is a member.
Overseas government employment
The applicant intends to work in the United Kingdom for an overseas government or the United Nations or other international organisation of which the United Kingdom is a member.
Postgraduate doctors, dentists and trainee general practitioners
The applicant—
(1) is a graduate from a medical or dental school who is eligible for provisional or limited registration with the General Medical Council or General Dental Council and intends to work in the United Kingdom as a doctor or dentist as part of his training; or
(2) is a doctor, dentist or trainee general practitioner eligible for full or limited registration with the General Medical Council or the General Dental Council and intends to work in the United Kingdom as part of his postgraduate training or general practitioner training in a hospital or the Community Health Services.
Private servant in a diplomatic household
The applicant—
(1) is over 18; and
(2) intends to work in the United Kingdom as a private servant in the household of a member of staff of a diplomatic or consular mission who enjoys diplomatic privileges and immunity within the meaning of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Representative of an overseas newspaper, news agency or broadcasting organisation
The applicant has been engaged by an overseas newspaper, news agency or broadcasting organisation outside the United Kingdom and is being posted to the United Kingdom by that newspaper, agency or organisation to act as its representative.
Sole representative
The applicant—
(1) has been employed outside the United Kingdom as a representative of a firm that has its headquarters and principal place of business outside the United Kingdom and has no branch, subsidiary or other representative in the United Kingdom;
(2)intends to work as a senior employee with full authority to take operational decisions on behalf of the overseas firm for the purpose of representing it in the United Kingdom by establishing and operating a registered branch or wholly owned subsidiary of that overseas firm; and
(3) is not a majority shareholder in that overseas firm.
Teacher or language assistant
The applicant intends to work at an educational establishment in the United Kingdom under an exchange scheme approved by the Department for Education and Skills, the Scottish or Welsh Office of Education or the Department of Education, Northern Ireland, or administered by the British Council’s Education and Training Group.
Overseas qualified nurses
The applicant—
(1) has obtained confirmation from the Nursing and Midwifery Council that he is eligible for admission to the Overseas Nurses Programme; and
(2) has been offered and intends to take up a supervised practice placement through an education provider that is recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council or a midwifery adaptation programme placement in a setting approved by that Council.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110753348/schedule/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-accession-immigration-and-worker-authorisation-regulations-2006/schedule-1
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