{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/illegal-working-compliance-orders-regulations-2016/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/illegal-working-compliance-orders-regulations-2016/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1058",
  "legislation_title": "The Illegal Working Compliance Orders Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/illegal-working-compliance-orders-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Right to work checks: Positive Verification Notice",
  "text": "(1) A relevant person must—\n(a) obtain a Positive Verification Notice in respect of the employee (subject to paragraph (2)); and\n(b) comply, if applicable, with the requirement in regulation 6(2).\n(2) A relevant person does not comply with this regulation if a period of more than six months has elapsed beginning with the date the Positive Verification Notice was obtained under paragraph (1)(a).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.12.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1058/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T03:31:04.881762+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."
}