{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-citizens-rights-frontier-workers-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2020/9780348212228",
  "legislation_title": "The Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-citizens-rights-frontier-workers-eu-exit-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1971 Act” means the Immigration Act 1971;\n“the 2016 Regulations” means the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016;\n“common travel area” has the same meaning as in section 1(3) of the 1971 Act (general principles);\n“decision maker” means the Secretary of State or an immigration officer (as the case may be);\n“EEA national” means a national of an EEA state who is not also a British citizen;\n“EEA state” means—\n(a) a member State; or\n(b) Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland;\n“exclusion direction” means a direction issued by the Secretary of State for a person not to be given entry to the United Kingdom on the grounds that the person’s exclusion is conducive to the public good;\n“frontier worker” has the meaning given in regulation 3;\n“frontier worker permit” means a document which certifies a person’s frontier workers’ rights;\n“frontier workers’ rights” means the rights a person has as a frontier worker under Part 2 of the withdrawal agreement, Part 2 of the EEA EFTA separation agreement or Part 2 of the Swiss citizens’ rights agreement;\n“immigration officer” means a person appointed by the Secretary of State as an immigration officer under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971;\n“relevant restriction decision” means—\n(a) an exclusion direction;\n(b) a deportation order made by virtue of regulation 15(1)(b);\n(c) an exclusion or deportation order made or treated as having been made by virtue of the 2016 Regulations, including those continued in effect by regulations made under section 7 or 9 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020; or\n(d) a deportation order made by virtue of section 3 of the 1971 Act;\n“required biometrics” means the biometric information required to be provided by the Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) Regulations 2006;\n“self-employed person” means a person who is established in the United Kingdom in order to pursue activity as a self-employed person within the meaning of Article 49 on the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union;\n“valid identity document” means—\n(a) a valid national identity card issued by an EEA state; or\n(b) a valid passport issued by an EEA state;\n“worker” means a worker within the meaning of Article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2016/1052. Amended by S.I. 2017/1, S.I. 2017/1242, S.I. 2018/801, S.I. 2019/468, S.I. 2019/745 (amendments not in force) and S.I. 2019/1155."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "These agreements are defined in section 39 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/1743. Amended by S.I. 2015/737, S.I. 2018/928 and S.I. 2019/745."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No C326, 26.10.12, p65."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780348212228/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:49:11.180444+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}