{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-appeals-family-visitor-regulations-2012/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-appeals-family-visitor-regulations-2012/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1532",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-appeals-family-visitor-regulations-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prescribe a class or description of person for the purposes of section 88A(1)(a) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (“the 2002 Act”). Under section 88A(1)(a), a person may not appeal under section 82(1) of the 2002 Act against refusal of an application for entry clearance unless the application is made for the purpose of visiting a person of a description or class prescribed by regulations. Regulation 2(a) makes provision by reference to whether the applicant is a member of the family (as specified in regulation 2) of the person he or she is visiting; regulation 2(b) makes provision by reference to the circumstances of the person he or she is visiting (as specified in regulation 3).\nRegulation 4 makes transitional provision to provide that the Regulations apply only to an application for entry clearance made on or after the day on which the Regulations come into force.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1532/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:29:03.222736+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."
}