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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-amendment-regulations-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/594",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Immigration (Biometric Registration) Regulations 2008 (“the 2008 Regulations”) so as to extend the categories of persons who are required to apply for a biometric immigration document. They also allow the United Kingdom to complete the in-country rollout to issue biometric immigration documents pursuant to the Council Regulation 1030/2002 (laying down a uniform format for residence permits for third country nationals).\nRegulation 4 substitutes in its entirety regulation 3 of the 2008 Regulations to extend the requirement to apply for a biometric immigration document to those individuals who satisfy one of the conditions in regulation 3(2). In addition, under the substituted regulation 3(3) a person who has been notified on or after 1st December 2012 that the Secretary of State has decided to grant him leave to remain and was not required to apply for a biometric immigration document in respect of that leave will be required to apply for biometric immigration document.\nRegulation 8 amends regulation 21 of the 2008 regulations as to the circumstances when the holder of a biometric immigration document will be required to provide it to the Secretary of State or an immigration officer. Regulation 10 amends regulation 23 of the 2008 Regulations as to the consequences of a failure to comply with the Regulations. These amendments take account of the different groups of people that now fall within the scope of the 2008 Regulations, such as those applying to be recognised as a refugee.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business is available from the UK Border Agency at www.UKBA.homeoffice.gov.uk and is published with the Explanatory Memorandum alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/594/note",
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  "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."
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