{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-biometric-registration-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111517727",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-biometric-registration-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendments to the 2008 Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 21(requirement to use a biometric immigration document) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (d) substitute—\n“(d) where he makes an application for entry clearance, leave to enter or leave to remain;\n(da) where he makes an application to be recognised as a refugee, as a person in need of humanitarian protection, or as a stateless person in accordance with Article 1 of the Stateless Convention;\n(db) where he applies as a dependant of a person who makes an application mentioned in sub-paragraph (d) or (da);\n(dc) where he makes an application for a Convention Travel Document, Stateless Person’s Travel Document or a Certificate of Travel;”;\n(b) for sub-paragraph (e) substitute—\n“(e) when his dependant makes an application—\n(i) i)for entry clearance, leave to enter, leave to remain; or\n(ii) to be recognised as a refugee, as a person in need of humanitarian protection, or as a stateless person in accordance with Article 1 of the Stateless Convention;”.\n(3) At the beginning of paragraph (3)(b) insert “where he has limited leave to remain,”.\n(4) After paragraph (3)insert—\n“(4) Where the holder of a biometric immigration document makes—\n(a) an application for a certificate of entitlement under section 10 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 that a person has the right of abode in the United Kingdom;\n(b) an application for a letter or other document confirming a person’s immigration or nationality status or that a person is not a British citizen;\n(c) an application for naturalisation as a British citizen under section 6(1) or (2) of the British Nationality Act 1981, or as a British overseas territories citizen under section 18(1) or (2) of that Act; or\n(d) an application for registration under any provision of the British Nationality Act 1981,\nhe must provide his biometric immigration document to the Secretary of State or a person acting on behalf of the Secretary of State in connection with that application.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c.41; section10(2) was amended by section 50(5) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c.13); section 10 (2)(e) was repealed by sections 52(7), 61, Schedule 2, paragraph 4(a), Schedule 3 of the same Act; section 10(2)(f) substituted by section 52(7), Schedule 2, paragraph 4(b) of that same Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c.61; section 6(2) was amended by section 261 and paragraph 72 of Schedule 27 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33); subsections (2), (3) and (4) were amended by section 40(1) and (2) respectively of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 (c.11); section 18(1), (2) and (3) were amended by sections 1 and 2 of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c.8); section 18(2) was amended by section 261 and paragraph 72 of Schedule 27 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111517727/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:52:36.781694+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."
}