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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-and-nationality-fees-amendment-order-2007/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110797786",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-and-nationality-fees-amendment-order-2007",
  "path": "article/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment",
  "text": "In article 2 –\n(a) after “the 1997 Act” insert –\n““the 1999 Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;”\n(b) after “the 2006 Act” insert –\n““A rated sponsor” means a sponsor to whom the Secretary of State has given an A rating;\n“action plan” means an action plan issued to a B rated sponsor and with which a B rated sponsor must comply in order to become an A rated sponsor;\n“B rated sponsor” means a sponsor to whom the Secretary of State has given a B rating;\n“certificate of sponsorship” means an authorisation issued by the Secretary of State to a sponsor in respect of one or more applications, or potential applications, for leave to enter or remain in accordance with the immigration rules;”;\n(c) after “the immigration rules” omit “and”;\n(d) after “the former nationality Acts” insert –\n““sponsor” means a person who is granted a sponsorship licence; and\n“sponsorship licence” means a licence granted by the Secretary of State to a person who, by virtue of such grant, is licensed as a sponsor.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c.33"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "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."
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