{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-citizens-rights-frontier-workers-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-citizens-rights-frontier-workers-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-3.json",
  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Meaning of “frontier worker”",
  "text": "(1) A person is a frontier worker for the purposes of these Regulations if they were, immediately before IP completion day, and have been continuously since IP completion day—\n(a) an EEA national;\n(b) not primarily resident in the United Kingdom; and\n(c) either—\n(i) a worker in the United Kingdom;\n(ii) a self-employed person in the United Kingdom; or\n(iii) a person treated as a worker or self-employed person in the United Kingdom by virtue of regulation 4.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), it does not matter if a person changes from one of the statuses in paragraph (1)(c) to another.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person is to be treated as not being primarily resident in the United Kingdom at a particular point in time (“the relevant date”) if—\n(a) they have been present in the United Kingdom for less than 180 days in the twelve-month period immediately before the day on which the relevant date falls; or\n(b) they have returned to their country of residence at least—\n(i) once in the six-month period immediately before the day on which the relevant date falls; or\n(ii) twice in the twelve-month period immediately before the day on which the relevant date falls,\nunless there are exceptional reasons for not having done so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780348212228/regulation/3",
    "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."
}