{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-19.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/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Requirement to apply for a replacement biometric immigration document",
  "text": "(1) A person under the age of 70 who has been issued with a biometric immigration document under regulation 13(1) or 13A(1) is required to apply under regulation 3 or 3A for a replacement biometric immigration document where his original document —\n(a) has been cancelled under paragraphs (a) to (g) of regulation 17; or\n(b) has ceased to have effect under regulation 13(4)(b), (c) or (d), regulation 13A(6)(b), (c) or (d), or regulation 13B(4)(b).\n(2) A person required to apply for a biometric immigration document under paragraph (1) must do so within 18 months beginning with the date that the original document was cancelled or ceased to have effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 21(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1) substituted (1.7.2021) by The Immigration (Collection, Use and Retention of Biometric Information and Related Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/772), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 3(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 21(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1)(a) inserted (31.3.2009) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/819), regs. 1(1), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1)(b) substituted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 16(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(2) substituted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 21(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 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/19",
    "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."
}