{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016/schedule-6/paragraph-5A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016/schedule-6/paragraph-5A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/19",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/5A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Regulations under paragraph 5(6)(b) or (c) may, in particular—\n(a) prescribe checks carried out using services provided by a DVS-registered person or a DVS-registered person of a prescribed description;\n(b) prescribe documents generated by such a person;\n(c) prescribe documents which were provided to such a person in order to generate such documents.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1), “DVS-registered person” means a person who is registered in the DVS register maintained under Part 2 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (“the DVS register”).\n(3) Regulations under paragraph 5(6)(b) or (c) which prescribe a description of DVS-registered person may do so by, for example, describing a DVS-registered person whose entry in the DVS register includes a note relating to prescribed services (see section 36 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 5A inserted (19.6.2025 for specified purposes, 1.12.2025 in so far as not already in force) by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18), ss. 55(3), 142(1)(2)(h); S.I. 2025/1213, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/19/schedule/6/paragraph/5A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:15.186979+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."
}