{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-european-economic-area-nationals-eu-exit-order-2019/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-european-economic-area-nationals-eu-exit-order-2019/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111180587",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-european-economic-area-nationals-eu-exit-order-2019",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Grant of leave to EEA and Swiss nationals",
  "text": "(1) A person to whom this article applies has leave to enter the United Kingdom.\n(2) This article applies to a person who–\n(a) is an EEA national or a national of Switzerland;\n(b) requires leave to enter the United Kingdom or would require leave to enter if that person were not arriving on a local journey from within the common travel area;\n(c) is travelling on a valid national identity card or a valid passport issued by an EEA state or Switzerland;\n(d) does not otherwise have leave to enter the United Kingdom;\n(e) does not have an entry clearance complying with the requirements of article 3 of the Immigration (Leave to Enter and Remain) Order 2000 (requirements);\n(f) is not a person to whom article 4 of this Order applies;\n(g) either—\n(i) arrives at a port in the United Kingdom and presents the document mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) to an immigration officer or an automated gate;\n(ii) enters a control zone and presents the document mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) to an immigration officer or an automated gate;\n(iii) arrives in the United Kingdom on a local journey from the Republic of Ireland, or\n(iv) otherwise arrives in the United Kingdom and either presents the document mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) to an immigration officer or disembarks in accordance with arrangements approved by an immigration officer pursuant to paragraph 27(1)(a) of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act, and\n(h) does not apply for leave to enter the United Kingdom as a visitor or a short-term student within the meaning of the immigration rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/1161. Article 3 was amended by S.I. 2004/475."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 27 was amended by section 31(2) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c.13) and paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 5(1) to the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (c. 6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Laid before Parliament on 23rd May 1994 (HC 395), as amended."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111180587/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:00:50.240436+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."
}