{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3048",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Biometric Registration) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Cancellation of a biometric immigration document",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may cancel a biometric immigration document if he thinks that —\n(a) information provided in connection with the document was or has become false, misleading or incomplete;\n(b) the document has been lost or stolen;\n(c) the document (including any information recorded in it) has been altered, damaged or destroyed (whether deliberately or not);\n(d) an attempt has been made (whether successfully or not) to copy the document or to do anything to enable it to be copied;\n(e) a person has failed to surrender the document when required to do so under regulation 16(a) to (f), (h), (i) or (j);\n(f) the document should be re-issued (whether because the information recorded in it requires alteration or for any other reason);\n(g) a person has acquired the biometric immigration document without the consent of the holder or of the Secretary of State; ...\n(h) the holder has died; ...\n(i) the holder has proved that he is a British citizen or a Commonwealth citizen who has a right of abode in the United Kingdom as a result of section 2(1)(b) of the Immigration Act 1971 (statement of right of abode in the United Kingdom); or\n(j) a person has failed to collect the document within the period or by the process specified in the written decision issued under regulation 13A(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(e) substituted (31.3.2009) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/819), regs. 1(1), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 17(g) omitted (31.3.2009) by virtue of The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/819), regs. 1(1), 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 17(h) omitted (17.3.2015) by virtue of The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 15(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 17(i) and word inserted (31.3.2009) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/819), regs. 1(1), 7(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 17(i) inserted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 15(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 17(j) inserted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 15(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 25.11.2008, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3048/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:21:30.508970+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."
}