{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999-part-v-exemption-relevant-employers-order-2002/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999-part-v-exemption-relevant-employers-order-2002/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3025",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Part V Exemption: Relevant Employers) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999-part-v-exemption-relevant-employers-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;\n“immigration advice” and “immigration services” have the same meanings as in section 82 of the Act;\n“work permit” has the same meaning as in section 33(1) of the Immigration Act 1971;\n“immediate family” means a person’s spouse, and children below eighteen years of age;\n“EEA national” means a person to whom the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2000 apply.\n“family member of an EEA national” has the same meaning as in the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 77; as amended by Schedule 4 to the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2326; as amended by S.I. 2001/865: The Immigration (Swiss Free Movement of Persons) (No. 3) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1241) apply S.I. 2000/2326 to Swiss nationals and persons related to Swiss nationals and to posted workers as they apply to EEA nationals."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3025/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:37:39.220921+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."
}