{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-23.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/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Consequences of a failure to comply with a requirement of these Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), where a person who is required to make an application for the issue of a biometric immigration document fails to comply with a requirement of these Regulations, the Secretary of State—\n(a) may take any, or any combination, of the actions specified in paragraph (2); and\n(b) may consider giving a notice under section 9 of the UK Borders Act 2007.\n(2) The actions specified are to—\n(a) refuse an application for a biometric immigration document;\n(aa) prevent the person from generating a share code until they have complied with the requirement;\n(b) treat the person’s application for leave to enter or remain or for entry clearance as invalid;\n(c) refuse the person’s application for leave to enter or remain or for entry clearance; and\n(d) cancel or vary the person’s leave to enter or remain.\n(3) Where a person is required to apply for a biometric immigration document under regulation 3(2)(a) or (f) or regulation 3A(2) or as a dependant of such a person ... and fails to comply with a requirement of these Regulations, the Secretary of State—\n(a) must refuse the person’s application for a biometric immigration document;\n(b) must treat the person’s application for leave to enter or remain or for entry clearance as invalid; and\n(c) may cancel or vary the person’s leave to enter or remain.\n(4) Where a person is required to apply for a biometric immigration document under regulation 3(2)(e) ... or (g) or as the dependant of a person who has made an application in accordance with regulation 3(2)(e) ... and fails to comply with a requirement of these Regulations the Secretary of State—\n(a) may refuse the application for a biometric immigration document; and\n(b) may consider giving a notice under section 9 of the UK Borders Act 2007.\n(5) Where any person apart from a person referred to in paragraph (1), (3) or (4) fails to comply with a requirement of these Regulations, the Secretary of State must consider giving a notice under section 9 of the UK Borders Act 2007.\n(6) The Secretary of State may designate an adult as the person responsible for ensuring that a child complies with the requirements of these Regulations.\n(7) In this regulation “share code” means an electronically generated code to allow a third party to access information about an individual’s immigration status.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 substituted (29.2.2012) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/594), regs. 1(2), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 23(1)(b) 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(13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 23(2)(aa) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 22(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(2) substituted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 19(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(3) substituted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 22(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(3) inserted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 19(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in reg. 23(3) substituted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 22(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in reg. 23(3) inserted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 19(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(3) omitted (17.3.2015) by virtue of The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 19(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(3) substituted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 19(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in reg. 23(4) omitted (27.3.2025) by virtue of The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 22(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(4) omitted (27.3.2025) by virtue of The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 22(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Word in reg. 23(4)(b) 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(13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Reg. 23(7) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 22(d)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:21:30.508970+00:00"
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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."
}