{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016-transitional-provision-regulations-2016/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016-transitional-provision-regulations-2016/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/712",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration Act 2016 (Transitional Provision) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016-transitional-provision-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Offence of illegal working: transitional provision",
  "text": "Where a person is at large in the United Kingdom by virtue of paragraph 21(1) of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971 (temporary admission or release from detention)—\n(a) the person is to be treated for the purposes of section 24B(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 as if the person had been granted leave to enter the United Kingdom, but\n(b) any restriction as to employment imposed under paragraph 21(2) is to be treated for those purposes as a condition of leave.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 77."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 24B of the Immigration Act 1971 is inserted by section 34(3) of the Immigration Act 2016."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/712/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:10.790830+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."
}