Article 2 Amendments to the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Order 2011

(1)

The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Order 2011^f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In article 2 (definitions)—

(a)

after the definition of “the 2006 Act”, insert—

““the 2007 Act” means the UK Borders Act 2007^f2;”;

(b)

after the definition of “basic service”, insert—

““biometric information” has the same meaning as provided in section 15 of the 2007 Act^f3”.

(3)

In article 3(2) (Requirement to pay a fee for applications connected with immigration or nationality), for sub-paragraph (s) substitute—

“(s)
a biometric immigration document within the meaning of section 5 of the 2007 Act;”.

(4)

In article 5 (Requirement to pay a fee in respect of a process connected with immigration or nationality)—

(a)

for “The Secretary of State, or any person acting on behalf of the Secretary of State,”, substitute “The Secretary of State, or a contractor, or any person appointed by, or acting on behalf of, the Secretary of State,”;

(b)

for paragraph (c), substitute—

“(c)
taking a record of a person’s biometric information where the person is required by regulations made under section 41 of the 1981 Act^f4, section 126 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002^f5, or section 5 of the 2007 Act to provide such information for the purposes of an application or claim in connection with immigration or nationality;”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2011/445; this Order was amended by the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/249) and the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Amendment Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/205).
f2: 2007 c. 30.
f3: 2007 c. 30; section 15 was amended by section 12 of the Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22).
f4: 1981 c. 61; section 41 was amended by section 10 of the Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22).
f5: 2002 c. 41; section 126 was amended by section 8 of the Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22).