{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-13",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110818382",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Biometric Registration) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Issue of a biometric immigration document",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may issue a biometric immigration document to a person who has applied in accordance with regulation 3, provided the Secretary of State has decided to grant limited leave to remain to the person.\n(2) A biometric immigration document begins to have effect on the date of issue.\n(3) A biometric immigration document ceases to have effect on one of the dates specified in paragraph (4), whichever date occurs earliest.\n(4) The specified dates are —\n(a) the date that the person’s leave to remain ceases to have effect, including where the leave to remain is varied, cancelled or invalidated, or is to lapse;\n(b) in the case of a biometric immigration document which was issued to a person aged eighteen or over, the date after the expiry of ten years beginning with the date of issue; or\n(c) in the case of a biometric immigration document which was issued to a person aged under eighteen, the date after the expiry of five years beginning with the date of issue.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110818382/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:16:07.810407+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."
}